I admit I haven't had a good experience with the Unix crowd. I repeat the offer to work together, but so far the people who speak for Unix preach at us, don't listen, and threaten. Money I'll keep listening and watching and learning. If there's money, there may be software. If not, I don't believe there will.
Great programmers cost a lot of money.
That's pretty hard to work around. I don't think the Linux people really get that yet. To potential investors, in my opinion Linux would be a good bet, but not with the GPL assumption. It will do well if money is available, both from investors and eventually from customers. Customers Raymond refers to his users as customers, but I don't agree with this characterization.