Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 5th Mar 2007 15:46 UTC, submitted by WillM
"Freedom of choice is one of the great benefits of Open Source Software in general and Linux in particular. This freedom gives consumers the ability to select, without fear of litigation, what software they will use and how they will use or modify it. As a principal, this freedom is extremely valuable. However, a couple of announcements this week seem to indicate that market value of freedom of choice has dipped considerably. The biggest hurdle Linux adoption faced this week wasn't Microsoft, it was an enemy from within: Linux fragmentation."
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2007-03-04
But unification would make it stronger. POSIX and the Linux base aren't enough. I'm thinking about package management especially that duplicates work and incompatibilities accross distros.