He replied that Geeks won't be toppled because they're the only ones who know who to run the joint. Now, I kneel at the alter of Open Source. Nevertheless, I have to disagree with him on this point. Yes, companies can't survive without the geeks' technical knowledge. But that was also the case when geeks didn't rule.
Geeks are craftspeople, absorbed in their work.
They are passionate about their slice of the world. They have developed a culture of sharing embodied by the Open Source movement. And they are disdainful of hypocrisy. Of course, geeks, like everyone, are self- contradictory. A distressing number of them have read everything Ayn Rand has written.