Commercialisation can kill anything, music, movies, art, etc.... sadly Linux is becoming more commercial, but opensource is where it is going to be different, because the users, will *always* have the corporations by the balls. True, some may go on to make a great living from their early days of coding free software on free systems, but there will always be the new breed of geeky teens looking to quench their curiosty and keep the movement flowing. People are constantly looking for the alternative, linux met the desire of many frustrated windows users, promoting a "kewl" fresh image, which gained it instant popularity, but it will never become truly commercial because it can never be owned by one single company, it is truly free, and thus ever evolving, to make it just that little more 'leet' every time;o) cheers [Avatar]
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Commercialisation can kill anything, music, movies, art, etc.... sadly Linux is becoming more commercial, but opensource is where it is going to be different, because the users, will *always* have the corporations by the balls. True, some may go on to make a great living from their early days of coding free software on free systems, but there will always be the new breed of geeky teens looking to quench their curiosty and keep the movement flowing. People are constantly looking for the alternative, linux met the desire of many frustrated windows users, promoting a "kewl" fresh image, which gained it instant popularity, but it will never become truly commercial because it can never be owned by one single company, it is truly free, and thus ever evolving, to make it just that little more 'leet' every time ;o) cheers [Avatar]