The more this happens, the more the whole business community begins to understand that what is best for all of us is also what is best for each of us. So let's go back to native Linux companies like Caldera and Red Hat. Caldera's Volution is a closed-source product. The quiet fact is the source code to Volution is closed. We don't know.
Nobody seems to want to test the theory that high-ticket software can also be open source.
Open-source vendors don't want to risk annoying their development communities. This conflict will pass as more companies discover the economic paybacks of generous responses to question number one. Until then, each company will test that question in its own way. IBM has eagerly promised to contribute all it can to the development of Linux and the support of its surrounding Open Source communities. Meanwhile, Michael Dell has expressed a more conservative position, but one no less carefully considered.