They need to generate community interest in the actual development project and then establish a business model that can leverage the benefits of that community.

It focused on the trials and travails on the personal side that a geek has. It clearly showed the emotional side from the geek’s point of view. I thought it was pretty funny.

I see the decision about provisioning software as the next strategic decision to be made.

In fact, [such development] could be happening in some garage right now.

For a while the press and the market was preoccupied with this question about whether Linux was going to kill Windows and whether Linux fundamentally introduced a value proposition was going to pull users away...

The stakes are high for the outcome of this decision.

It’s a much more complex set of software.

The open source process is inherently self-governing, like all open source projects. At the same time Linux is now becoming important enough that it would be helpful to provide some guidance on where it can...