Ik kwam bij Slashdot een interessante editorial tegen over de vermeende fragmentatie van Linux, veroorzaakt door de toenemende betrokkenheid van commerciële bedrijven. De schrijver van het artikel is het daar niet mee eens en zegt dat Linux sterker is dan ooit:
What we have now have going is a virtuous circle -- as each of the old-line Unix outfits joins the Linux crowd, the gravity it exerts on the others grows stronger. The Monterey and Tru-64 development efforts, the last-gasp attempts to produce competitive closed Unixes, can't even muster convincing majorities of support inside the vendors backing them; both IBM and Compaq are investing heavily in Linux.Linux fragmenting? No way. Instead, it's cheerfully absorbing its competition. And the fact that it is `absorbing' rather than `destroying' is key; vendors are belatedly figuring out that the value proposition in the OS business doesn't really depend on code secrecy at all, but instead hinges on smarts and service and features and responsiveness.
Het complete artikel vind je hier.
