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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2005-07-07
Another thing these doomsayers forget is this; opensource means that that the software companies who write software for Linux can actually get *INVOLVED* with the development of the operating system
Very good point!
Unfortunately they seem to prefer getting things shoved down their throats and finding workarounds later on.
Maybe it is a bit like what Agent Smith said in Matrix: they don't want it perfect, they need the suffering