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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2006-01-06
It's not arbitrary. IBM and other commercial concerns made contributions to Linux that either wouldn't have been possible (eg. IBM donated tons of patents and source code) or would have taken YEARS longer than the larger community could have done them. So, in other words, Linux as we know it would PRIMARILY not have been possible without the contributions of commercial organizations. Sure, individuals in the community contributed, but their contributions pale by comparison.