ISPs, operating systems, browsers, webspace, e-mail, they are all not going to be the big money makers. That mystery is on Tim's mind. Some say the Redhats and SuSEs, the Linux distributors. Others say the OS service and support firms. Tim would say the applications which run on top of free software.
Virtual money is about to make the free software question irrelevant.
The volume of capital which is circulating at the higher level of applications and e-services which build on top of the Net will gently push aside old software configurations. Capital, with all its weight is about to smash the Open Source movement. Not with repression. Not in an ignorant way. There is a growing respect, with bits of appropriation here and there.