Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 15th Apr 2008 20:06 UTC, submitted by melkor
"I came away from the second annual Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit with mixed feelings. I mean, it's hard not to support the group that pays Linus Torvalds to spend his time continuing to lead the poster-boy project for free and open source software. But at the same time, those golden chains are my biggest concern about the Linux Foundation."
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The barriers to linux adoption on the desktop or anywhere else are political not technical.
It is very likely just PR ... to use a polite term. An attempt to get "soundbites" or "a meme" into the conciousness of the general public who aren't paying much attention. There are wealthy parties who have a strong vested interest in pushing the false notion that Linux has trouble with drivers, and that it is too hard to get it working.
To use a more impolite term, without swearing or cussing, one would probably choose the word "astroturfing".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing
Edited 2008-04-16 04:19 UTC