[ Thanks to andrew sova
for this link. ]
“It is a well-known fact that, according to the laws of
aerodynamics, bumble bees should not be able to fly. Yet fly they
manifestly do. Much the same is true of open source software (OSS),
which, according to conventional wisdom, the laws of economics and
prevailing theories of organisational behaviour, ought not to
exist.“Yet it not only exists, it positively thrives. OSS runs most of
the world’s email and serves most of the world’s web pages. Every
time you type a query into Google, you trigger activity in the
world’s largest Linux cluster…”