“The stock market has now purified the minds of many Linux
skeptics. Linux is now legit. Unfortunately for us, the wrong
legitimacy is dangerous. Much of the legitimacy we’ve gained in the
eyes of the public is not purely based on merit, but on
money.“
“The average person on the street couldn’t tell you exactly what
Linux is supposed to be, but they’d proceed to tell you how Red
Hat’s stock is doing. Usually with a lament something along the
lines of, “I wish I had gotten in earlier.”
“Now is the time to educate everyone on exactly what we are
about. Use the frenzy on Wall Street to our best advantage. The
community has a golden opportunity to exploit the public’s current
curiosities. When one of your non-Linux friends or relatives
relates to you a story they heard on the news about a sky-rocketing
Linux stock, give them the deeper truth hidden behind, rather than
hype.”