“Culture clash brewing between Linux hackers and their more
buttoned-down employers.
“The momentum Linux has gathered as both a server system and,
more recently, a viable desktop alternative is in danger of being
impeded by growing disharmony between developers and vendors,
according to experts.”
“Alan Cox, a long-standing Linux kernel developer based in the
UK, agrees that, although Linux developers work in harmony with big
business for the moment, certain fundamental differences could
cause problems in the near future. “… obviously the potential is
there,” he says. “We already have some disagreements. Some
vendors don’t get the ‘release early, release often’
idea.”