The largest contributor was Bob Luddy, who is a board member at the John Locke Foundation and at the Civitas Institute.

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He's a contributor to the National Review, with us from NPR member station WGBH in Boston.

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He maintains close ties to members of the Saudi royal family and is a member of the Saudi-American Forum and a frequent contributor to the Saudi-U.S. Relations Information Service.

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He was also a founding contributor to the Computer History Museum History Center in Boston and then was a member of the Computer History Museum (CHM) when most of the artifacts from Boston were moved to Mountain View and combined with local historical equipment, including one of the original RAMACs.

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Making things even more complicated is VMware must now walk the line as both a member of the OpenStack Foundation, which puts it in a tough position as both a contributor as well as a competitor to the OpenStack project.

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