"Any Linux developer in a coma for the last six years who awoke to the sight of LinuxWorld's trade floor in San Francisco this week would most likely have suffered a severe stroke.
"It's not a hobbyists' operating system anymore; the fusion between the geek realm and big business is now a reality, like it or not. The towering, brightly lit, plastic, steel and glass monuments of commerce erected for the conference mock the tiny little stands belonging to the members of the '.org pavilion,' the groups that made open source software what it is today..."
