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Microsoft, Innovation, and Linux

  Date:Dec 19 2002

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You'd hope that the open-source movement would have made a wild leap that would get it off the treadmill of featurism and onto something entirely new. After all, we are told that millions of coders on the Web can match and beat Microsoft and its mere 20,000 to 30,000 drones. The trouble is that too many members of the Linux community started out on the x86 Wintel platform. After all, Linux was designed for the x86. This is the simple but overlooked fact of the Linux revolution: Its roots are in Wintel.


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