“Linux creator Linus Torvalds defended the open source movement
against critics who say that the so-called ‘community of
communities’ should band together or risk ending up like Unix.“‘One of the big strengths of open source is that you have
little coupling between these projects,’ Torvalds said during an
Open Source Development Labs-sponsored Enterprise Linux Summit here
this week.“‘If you try to keep everything at the same level–especially
with communicating the changes–that takes energy. What I see as a
strength of open source is that you have competing
projects…'”