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A Decade of OSS, 10 Years After the Summit
Jacob's ladder writes "Ten years ago this week, the Free Software Summit arguably marked the beginning of today's OSS movement. Ars Technica interviews many of those in attendance when the revolution began. John Ousterhout, creator of the Tcl scripting language and Tk toolkit and founder of Electric Cloud was there, and notes how much the landscape has changed. 'When I made my first open-source release in the early 1980s (VLSI chip design tools from Berkeley), there were probably less than five open-source projects in the world. By the time of the first O'Reilly conference, there were dozens; now there are probably thousands. Also, open-source software has received substantial mainstream acceptance. 10 years ago, people were suspicious or afraid of it; now it is widely embraced.'"
I am very pleased to see the progress of the last ten years-- and there is more yet coming.
Besides, I am guessing that Microsoft's "Vista" was a cleverly positioned 'failure' that is now allowing their 'damaged' brand image to give them enough room to buy out Yahoo, whereas before they would've been stopped by the Gov because of their 'monopoly'.
But.. not now.
I do not respond to cowards. Especially anonymous ones.
"Even without the acceptance of Linux on the desktop..."
What acceptance, where?
In industry?
In commerce?
In the media?
In the home?
Did I miss something? The 'Year of Linux on the Desktop' maybe?
"open source has been a ridiculously huge success"
Ok, I'm a heretic - so burn me now - but I don't think spin and wishful thinking furthers anyones aims.