But the most reliable indication of the future of Open Source is its past: in just a few years, we have gone from nothing to a robust body of software that solves many different problems and is reaching the million-user count. There's no reason for us to slow down now.

The world is beating a path to our door

The reason for the success of this somewhat communist-sounding strategy, while the failure of communism itself is visible around the world, is that the economics of information are fundamentaly different from those of other products.

No one cares what operating system you run as long as it stays up.

It's not about ego. Really. If it was ego, I'd be telling you about my awesome... oh, never mind.

Well, lets just say, if your VCR is still blinking 12:00, you dont want Linux.

But the most reliable indication of the future of Open Source is its past: in just a few years, we have gone from nothing to a robust body of software that solves many different problems and is reaching the million-user count. There's no reason for us to slow down now.