> But even as the Wall Street crowd increasingly puts its money on Linux
> — market watcher Tabb Group estimates that Linux adoption among the 14
> biggest investment firms this year will reach more than 72% of the
> installed operating server base vs. 60% in 2006 — it's clear concerns
> linger about the licensing model. That model requires users return
> changes to the open source community under certain circumstances, a
> touchy subject for companies that are battling to accelerate their
> business processes.
I love it: Wall Street, welcome to the joys of socialism! This reminds me of Lenin's quip about capitalists selling us the rope with which we'll hang them. In my more optimistic moments, I see this sort of "backdoor" infiltration of socialism into corporate culture as a viable path to a socialist future. (Analogy: weeds push up through cracks in concrete and eventually undermine the integrity of the concrete structure.)
Miles