Linked by Roberto Dohnert on Tue 17th Jun 2003 19:25 UTC
Everyone knows what Microsoft does by now. What some people do not know is that Microsoft releases a system integration software named Windows services for UNIX. 
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well nick thats your opinion and your entitled to it.. no one said you aint, but the fact is microsoft was in the right place at the right time.. no im too young to have invented my own os and sold it to ibm.
but as it stands its not as straight forward as what you make out.. its not a case of capitilsm was communism.. thats just in your opinion, its more than that..
you just have to look at the kernel currently there are 400 coders working on it. look at other arease kde has literally thousands of volunteeers look at the whole of debian that has thousands of volunteers too.. the main difference is that yes people do the least they can to get by.. but one thing i have noticed with linux is this
u start off and learn how it works how to go around how to make things work.. but being grateful for the hardwork people have put in to make the software, and for them to distribute it freely, makes u wanna give something back ( atleast thats the way i felt about it and im not the only one) so i started helping with documentation about things that people were struggling with and i gave how i did it.. it doesnt necessarily have to be in doing coding it can be in any number of ways.. most isps with enough bandwidth provide mirroring.. they have the bandwidth spare and can afford to mirror the software so they provide it. thats how things work in the linux world.. Then their are big companies like ibm who stand to gain from linux and so they pump in money and support.. Other companies like redhat and suse who are for profit distribution vendors who hire coders to get specific things done that they need and release the code out as gpl.. the linux community is a lot more complex than just encapsulating it as communism.. communism failed because at the source you had greedy dictators, hell bent on power. Microsoft if u look at it maybe a captilist company but in many ways its like a dictatorship government while certain projects for linux are dictatorships others are completely democratic an example of democracy working well within linux is the debian distribution.
Where linux has not worked for you. Where you say linux just doesnt measure up to microsoft i would disagree, i would say microsoft specifically windows does not measure up to linux.. specifically because it cant handle the load of my day to day usage.. Linux may not be great but its great for me.. and if it doesnt work for you, but windows does.. then use what works.
sorry for the spelling/grammatical errors.