ZDNet: It’s a Matrix Moment for Linux

“What’s going on? Linux hackers suddenly find they are in the
Matrix, their brains feeding robotic corporations, and previously
successful organizations are in trouble. Could all this be
happening simply because there’s no money any more?

“Seven or eight years ago, we used to say ‘The Internet changes
everything.’ It was an optimistic, hip idea. Then it got
appropriated into the dot-com boom. A bunch of bread-heads made
virtual money by capitalizing on the strange combination of greed,
optimism and blindness that afflicted everyone else. By and large
the clever ones got out in time, turned their virtual money into
cash and left the rest of the world to realize it had been
conned.

“But that was OK, because, whenever it has happened before,
there has always been another bandwagon along to jump on. A couple
of booms down the line, things feel different. I begin to think
that something really is changing everything, and that is lack of
money…”

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