That's probably the most important aspect, to be honest. Because, just like the Internet, all developers can now write applications to Linux and then port to all the other platforms. So it will facilitate the development of applications enormously, and in particular, facilitate the development of applications that can move around various platforms in the network. We are, in some of our WebAhead projects, for example. These are Internet projects looking at how open source can help us develop things better internally.
Community development is a very, very powerful way of developing software.
Especially the kind of software that is at the enabling layer. If the community is 27 people, then you don't have to do it under the GNU license, it could be a proprietary community. Robert McMillan is executive editor for Linux Magazine.