Accessorising - Publishers O'Reilly support the open source movement because it helps to sell its books. Raymond demolishes the popular myth that open source development is a socialist idea. And, for once, he is on the same side as arch enemy Bill Gates. I'm opposed to governments interfering in the economy. Socialism implies some central authority sitting in the middle with guns.
Open source relies on people sitting around and sharing voluntarily.
While chuckling at Gates's plight, Raymond said part of him feels uneasy about the precedent it sets. He said Sun Microsystems has told all its divisions they have until the end of the year to provide road maps to move development to open source, or give good reasons why they should be exempt. This includes Sun's cash cow, the industrial-strength Unix operating system Solaris. We really have an executive team that will do some interesting things around Linux. We realised we needed operational experience around Linux.