“The geekish computer operating system Linux stormed ahead
in 1999, proving that the combined intellectual power of
public-spirited engineers around the world could match it with the
largest software companies…”
“Unlike operating systems such as Windows 98, Linux isn’t
developed by a corporation, but by the combined efforts of
individual programmers who believe in free software, whose work is
pulled together by Linux’s original developer, Mr Linus Torvalds.
But that’s not to say that, just because the software is free,
people aren’t making money out of it hand over fist.”