Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Sat 16th Aug 2008 01:04 UTC, submitted by sharkscott
"In many ways the virtues that have brought Linux from a Unix look alike pet project to a competitive operating system are the same as the ideals behind DefCon. The community stood on each other's shoulders and developed piece after piece of software to fill in the gaps that were found through use. Programmer's built on the ideas of others creating tighter and tighter code to support an increasingly complex framework."
Permalink for comment 327158
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
Member since:
2006-01-06
This is partially fiction. The primary reason that Linux even had a chance at all of becoming competitive was not because of the overall community but, rather, because of large contributions from commercial organizations such as IBM, Red Hat, Novell, and others. Otherwise, it would have ended up as yet another BSD-ish project which, while laudable and very useful, has never really had much of an impact on the market.