Linux shows that the bazaar brings forth more reliable and flexible software than any secluded developer team because every day hundreds of developer-users test and improve it. Two worlds meet. In the encounter of cooperative and corporate cultures, there is more at stake than the question of who is developing the better software. P rominent free software projects are to be presented by their developers. With XFree86 and graphical user interfaces like KDE, it also becomes available to the non-hacking user.
Apache runs on over half the Web servers on the Internet.
Afterwards, companies that do business with free software will present themselves. Companies such as SuSE aggregate systems and applications programs into Linux distributions. Medium-sized firms such as Lunetix and Innominate install and support Linux systems. Publishers such as O'Reilly sell manuals for free software. Industry giants such as Oracle or Star Division offer their software products under Linux.