“…watch for culture-clash stories this week and weepy
quotes from sentimental nerds as the press descends on
LinuxWorld to cover this conference in the week when the first
major Linux company, Red Hat software, files for its
IPO…”
“Stories about the open-source movement that nurtured Linux are
never complete without the sweetly naive and mildly socialist
comments of hackers who haven’t completely bought into the
market-driven economy paradigm in which the rest of us dwell. These
are the quotes from sentimental hackers who will tell us how much
more interesting it was before any money was on the table.”