Re:Not useful in 30 years (Score 1)

I want to be a thousand percent confident that this organization will be around for the next 30 to 50 years because Linux isn't going away,'

That is a bad idea. Think about how much has changed in 30 years with technology. Now accelerate that change with the internet, etc. It is a very bad idea for Linux to still be used in 30 to 50 years. Now, there will be some use for it, to see how much software has changed, etc. But for a system written in 1991 to be useful in 2038 it has to have the fundamental architecture changed. Will there be an open source OS that is good to be used in 2038? Yes. Is Linux it? Nope. Not unless you still think that the MS-DOS system is still useful today, or that Windows 3.1 laptop.

This sounds like typical 19 year olds trying to think clearly. Don't you realize that close to 30% of all military, commercial and government (transportation, communications, US Mail) run on OS as old or older than DOS. The entire national aerospace was running an OS fairly recently that was older than Unix for christ's sake. If you don't think Dos is useful, go and try to buy a used dot matrix printer (most commonly used on DOS or older systems) and see what it cost you. They cost more today than they did in 1990. That's because they are still being used on old systems. The youngsters get to play with new stuff but much of the work gets done on the tried and true.