“At many corporations, open-source software products such as
Linux have risen to strategic prominence with the speedy pace of a
child prodigy entering college.”
“It’s no wonder why. With access to source code, organizations
seeking to build quick, responsive electronic businesses can take
control of their IT environments, tuning Linux and other
open-source products to operate 24-by-7. Time and money once spent
lobbying vendors for new features, waiting for development, and
tracking down the latest bug and virus fixes can now be devoted to
hiring and training the best Linux developers available to maintain
and evolve the corporate network.”
“But just as quickly as open source ascended, it may now be
coming to an end. With the recent rapid success of open source
generally–and Linux in particular–corporate interests have begun
to loom over the movement, influencing standards, twisting
licensing plans and generally co-opting many of the key principles
of open source.”