Doc Searls (love him or hate him) wrote an intriguing article that’s worth a read. It’s long, but it’s good. Here’s a quote:
“Linux is the frame construction of computing. Nobody’s going to offer a more popular or useful alternative. Yes, there will be other choices, and that’s fine. But the basic approach to building OS-based computing hardware has been worked out. That work-out was born with Unix, and reached maturity with Linux. Today the LAMP stack is a couple hundred thousand letters long. Other Unixes are shortening. OS X can’t compete. And now Windows can’t either. It was already post-peak with XP, and Vista so far is a non-starter. Microsoft would now be well-advised to start making software for Linux as well. They will eventually in any case.”
