Enormous Hostility ... HAH ! I don't think so (Score 1)

I have been an advocate of Linux for a while now and I have begun to realize something ... People who USE the web ( and those are the ones we sell our services to , eventually ) don't get hostile when they are told that something was "ripped off" from another company or revolutionary . They follow advertising and marketing . ISP's will follow the demands of their customers as will web-hosting companies . Their customers are not impressed by things like stability , open standards or anyhting mutually benficial to a community of users . They are moved by proprietary software and specifications that they can be 'current' on by paying for . Let's not forget that
those of us who long for open standards and a free development environment are generally not the ones targeted by the marketing divisions of companies .
I have faced up to this fact ; The only reason that the internet is such a success is that it literally snuck up on most of corporate America .