ROFL! Linksys didn't require Linux to exist, they're a hardware company to begin with and typically use something else in most of their products anyway. No wonder since the green party freaks you support decended on them threatening lawsuits for using the "free" software.
I'm glad for it as well
LOL get real, Solaris and OSX are still closed operating systems, you obviously like fully open ones that communists can rename and resell as "Red Flag" without a dime back to the developers, even run your own ping list for products like that.
Linksys found a place in the market because they had a free network operating systems (and webserver, and ftp server, .... ) Handed to them if not for that they would still be a niche maker of cheap hardware. The owners would not be nearly as wealthy with cysco money.. BTW Another company that got its start because of Linux was Caldera, what are they called today?
LOL get real, Solaris and OSX are still closed operating systems
Solaris yes, apple... well most of the fun parts are but whats your point, you are unable to find a single post in my posting history where I say I am against closed source software, I have challenged you so many times I lose count but yet *nothing*.
you obviously like fully open ones
I also own and like Mac's hell if we don't count Xen on my one linux box Apple outnumbers Linux at my house. And Ill be first in line when 10.5 comes out later this year.. Again you spend more time accusing people of outrageous things than you do listening to them..
Free software is the epitome of the free market and extremely distant from communism. There is no government involvement, no centralized control, and nothing preventing or interfering with a person engaging or disengaging in the market. If there are people who think the personal value of writing free software is greater than their personal opportunity cost, then who are you to say what they can or cannot do. Interfering with that important calculation is the beginning of communism, not the lack of profits. Your suggestion is closer to communism than that of the supposed 'leftists' you think are trying to subvert the computer industry. But as I pointed out before, you latch on to the Stallman types but ignore the Raymond and the Wall types.