Greg, Linus, Putting all the enforcement issues aside, there is one sentence that struck me: > > And corporations are a _huge_ part of our community, and frankly, > > the only reason we are where we are today. I don't question the first part of the sentence, but I disagree to 'the only reason' in the second part. The reason where we are today is the result of _all people_ contributing to Linux. I think our community is a lively mixture of particitpants hacking because of commercial, technical, enthusiastic, ideological and what not reasons. The beauty (and the challenge) is all of us working together. IMO this is one very important part which attracts some of the special talent which makes our community awesome. For me, it surely did. And that talent usually can't be attracted by, say, large investments or similar (which admittedly attracts other special talent and is OK, too). So, I don't think it is fair to give credits "where we are today" _only_ to the commercial side. And I have a hard time believing this view is fundamentally different from yours? Wolfram