I think his view of "everyone" is more indicative of OSS (open source software) investors, rather than OSS company founders. Although, founders probably do want to become the next Red Hat.
Now, if we our" help in driving the acceptance of Linux. Along the way we'll sell a lot more hardware and related software and services. Everyone wins. But as Red Hat and others begin to expand up and across the software stack, there's more talk about traditional software vendors acquiring pure play OSS vendors. For instance, there have been rumours of Zend being acquired by Oracle, and Oracle As I've mentioned before, this is why I'm not a big fan of the "us vs. them" approach. The open source business model is great, and I support it. But it won't replace the traditional software business model anytime soon or wholesale. An evolution as the two models blur together is much more likely. So, let's focus on "us and them".
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