I'm not sure about the general thesis, but some of the history is questionable. For one thing, I assume gumby would disagree about Red Hat being "the first com

I'm not sure about the general thesis, but some of the history is questionable. For one thing, I assume gumby would disagree about Red Hat being "the first company to build a successful business on top of open-source software" (for values of "open-source" equal to "free"), even if though became successful enough to buy Cygnus.