Wow, I think it says a lot that the MS publicity people have stopped even trying to make Microsoft look better in comparison to Linux but are trying to split th

Wow, I think it says a lot that the MS publicity people have stopped even trying to make Microsoft look better in comparison to Linux but are trying to split the camp between Linux and BSD. As far as the comparison between BSD, it is clear why most people prefer Linux, it works with more things than BSD. I think that at least one of Theo's complaints is completely meritless -- that Linux developers are being exploited in some way. First Linux developers do their work on their own free will, nobody tricks them or forces them to do the work. Also, Linux developers are getting treated better than BSD ones, because Linux has the GPL. So IBM can use the work of Linux developers, but if IBM has to have something done in house, they cannot keep it closed, they have to submit their own code to the community just as any Linux developer would. This of course is very different than BSD where companies like Microsoft and Apple and Sun routinely take code and use it for their own close sourced projects.