>Developers in open source companies do have finite budgets, Yes, the employees of companies at Intel, RedHat, and IBM contributing to Linux work within a fini

>Developers in open source companies do have finite budgets, Yes, the employees of companies at Intel, RedHat, and IBM contributing to Linux work within a finite budget (paid salaries) but The Linux Kernel itself does not have a budget. If Intel/RH/IBM all stopped funding programmers to work on Linux, the Linux project would still continue with volunteers. It may continue at a slower pace but it would continue nonetheless. The point remains: Linux kernel remote workers cannot be used as a case study for businesses to adopt remote telecommuting.