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."
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"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."
And what's your arbitrary reason for declaring Red Hat, Novell, IBM and others not part of the community? They certainly don't act as a monolithic bloc, but each follow their own interests. One interest they all share is in being part of the Linux community.
Disparate entities contributing to a common cause sounds like a community to me.
Edited 2008-08-17 05:36 UTC