You don't want the supercomputer vendor to sell you the fridge, because it will cost two million dollars and heat your house more than you like.

Linux really shines in a fragmented world, where you have supercomputer vendors and fridge vendors.

In-fighting is the UNIX disease.

Add value to the chain, not take it over

expand the market rather than hold it fransom

the open source model is anti-fragmenting in that it forces people to live together even when they don't want to.

It reminds people what's really important.

It's fun seeing how nervous some comanies get about appearing bad in the community.

The real point of linux and OS is user control oand choice ovefr the prod

good tech avail for all which is exactly what the commercial side needs.

What it all boils down to is that linux is noncom and perceived as having noncommercial values. Highbrow.

A lot of commercial companies have values. And a lot of the values linux has work in a commercial setting.

lthe oint of linux is not to be anticommercial. It has been to make something that is nice to use and people can control what they are using. Every good commercial company should strive for a happy user who is in control of his live.

It tries to move software from witchcraft to science. Waht happened in teh mid ages was that people started openly discussing ideas. You no longer hade a shamanistic company that told you what to do. We have always called programming comp schi, but in fact many are put together by shamans. If it crashes, you wal aroud it in wintershins three times and it's okay.

having peop[l

Tech ideals
builind on top of existing, avail code,m rather than evryobyodn working on proprietary copy.

tech is onloy as good as the user exp.