Comment Re:You see, there's this thing called economics (Score 1) 976
The FSF didn't accomplish anything noteworthy without Linus' blind and aggressive campaign to write a great kernel for some strange reason.
Hmmm
Let's admit the dirty, little secret.
The FSF didn't accomplish anything noteworthy even with Linus' blind and aggressive campaign until the major competitors of Microsoft decided that dumping money and people into "free software" projects that competed with Microsoft was a good way to get revenge on Bill Gates for killing their old "centralized server computing equals high profits" model. Really. Name a project that made it big (say, 2% of the market) without back channel funding from IBM or SUN or Oracle.
