Where Does Linux Go From Here?

With the success that Linux is currently enjoying Linux.com (also owned by SourceForge, Inc) asks the question, where do we go from here? With such a high level of success and greater corporate participation (on both the consumer and provider fronts) will the spirit of freedom and idealism remain true or will the ever-present corporate bottom line eventually take over? "Linux is surrounded by proprietary IT firms. Some of them view Linux as a profit maker, others as a threat to their profits. Both sides represent a challenge for Linux in holding to its ideals of freedom and openess. The first large IT firm to really grok Linux was IBM. It has a long and mutually beneficial association with Linux, Apache, and other FOSS projects. The company has learned the language and the mores of the FOSS world, and has made significant code contributions as part of those projects along the way."

Comments

SourceForce? Come on...

[Laebshade]

With the success that Linux is currently enjoying Linux.com (also owned by SourceForce, Inc) asks the question,

Come on editors. SourceForce? I was gonna let the missing comma between 'enjoying' and 'Linux.com' slide, but jeez, this is so blatantly wrong.

Insidious Allusion?

[ZeroFactorial]

Or is the title of this post an insidious allusion to things to come? "Linusoft: Where do you want to go from here?"

i know

[jollyreaper]

Where next? Linux must crush its enemies. To see them driven before it. And to hear the lamentations of their women...

Re:i know

[Bluesman]

Stallman, I have never prayed to you before, I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good men or bad, why we fought or how we died. No, all that matters, is that two stood against many. That's what's important. Valour pleases you, Stallman, so grant me one request: grant me revenge! And if you do not listen, then to hell with you!

This is not the typo you are looking for..

[Chas]

*Handwave*

Re:Linux goes where Ferrari went!

[Akaihiryuu]

> Windoze is like a Ford Pinto. It'll get you to work and back home again, just don't expect it to have any real power.

Very accurate. It will get you to work and back home, without any real power...but you forgot to mention that it is perfectly normal for it to sometimes explode.

Re:SourceForce? Come on...

[Junior J. Junior III]

Oh! Oh! I know! How about incorporating kernel-level spellchecking?

Re:Same old, same old.

[kv9]

The problem is that's not a business. Who, in their right mind, would devote thousands of development hours cobbling something together, then cast it into the wind where basement developers use "what they want, and [get] rid of what they don't?" Sun?

Re:Linux goes where Ferrari went!

[Cro Magnon]

Windoze is like a Ford Pinto. It'll get you to work and back home again, just don't expect it to have any real power.

What do you mean, no real power? Did you see the size of that fireball?

You can't. It breaks stuff.

[Anonymous Coward]

It screws up all the "referers" in Apache :(

Re:SourceForce? Come on...

[budgenator]

Cmdr Taco, "Gee ScuttleMonkey, your right, the company who's name you mis-spell lat week seems to have dropped a zero form your paycheck, no problem I'll have HR fix, should only take 6 months or so."

Re:It is an existing company, you insensitive clod

[Pie-rate]

Only because you're a fucking moron using Internet Exploder on Windows.

Why would you expect sympathy for that on Slashdor?

Re:SourceForce? Come on...

[ThePengwin]

Luke: "where am i going to find a free, open source FTP client?"
Obi-Wan: "Luke, use the SourceForce!"