Linux cult is dead, long live Linux enterprise.

Take a look at this. An article by Stuart Cohen, CEO OSDL.
"Take Torvalds' key lieutenant overseeing the Linux kernel, Andrew Morton. He's no amateur hacker. Morton worked for 10 years as a development manager at NortelNetworks building carrier-grade global telecommunications software. Carrier-grade systems must meet service availability requirements in the range of five 9's -- 99.999% uptime. So he knows all about business hardening of enterprise software.Make no mistake, Linux is in professional hands."

Sad? or good? in a way its little sad as the OSDL CEO is not in his heart a believer of a hacker's cult. In a way its good cause it mean Linux the enterprise is becoming stronger and stronger.
The observation he makes is however wrong in my view. He says a professional is handling linux not the hackers anymore. Well, who the hell told him hackers cant be professionals. All these people he gives examples of are pro hackers. Till linux was around the only way to survive for these people was to have some other day job, or join some research institute like MIT AI labs. Linux just opened up a way for hackers to remain hackers even in their day jobs. And who is he kidding? this industry is pioneered by hackers like K&R and Unix guies. No wonder Linux seems to follow the same software process as enterprises. There is no other way weather you are a hackers or professionals, and linux combines both. It not linux inc. sir, its still a linux cult. Alan Cox is still fighter, rude and arogant. Linus is still a bully, as big as a bully can gets. They still do write their own SCM :-)) when they don't find the right solution and don't settle for a sucker like clearcase/cvs. They are still Just Men(TM)* :-)).


* : For all the feminist people, i won't accept the argument of men and wemen being equal untill wemen start contributing to Linux. And i mean not just those few exceptions where a female is stuck with writing ldd. And there are no barriers no opportunity problems. linux has so far been developed and architected by people accross borders, continets and language barriers. The process and the community is truely open. There are more or less uniformly distributed statistics accross all catagories of human race in linux community. Except for the female catagory.