Linux Reality Outstrips Linux Myth
The personal computer industry is about to arrive at a "tipping point" in which everything changes and those who get ahead of the curve earn social and cultural advantages over those who don't.
A social or economic tipping point is characterized by a sudden burst of mass sanity as mainstream public opinion abandons an unsustainable mythology in favor of something closer to reality. Such reversals usually have a sustaining mythology of their own, complete with an acceptable explanation for previous behavior. In the case of the PC industry tipping point now upon us, that mythology is built around the legend of Linus Torvalds.
According to the legend, Mr. Torvalds, a poor graduate student in Finland, single-handedly invented a computer operating system called Linux along with a free public distribution method called open source and then used this Robin Hood combination of product and method to stand tall against the forces of evil in the form of MicrosoftRelevant Products/Services from Microsoft, Intel, IBM and other huge international corporations involved in personal computing Latest News about computing.
