Where’s Linus?

Heh, this sort of reminds me of a Waldo routine in a way. Well, I doubt that this blogger is the only one wondering what is up with Linus lately. Just a passing thought.

I had a chance to attend the LinuxWorld Summit in NYC last week and I met some nice people there, but also learned about the infighting that goes on within the Open Source community. It’s human nature for a group to come together and then split-up into factions, this happens often within the Open Source community.

Admittedly I’m the outsider, but I’ve seen this all before. Look at RSS 2.0 vs RSS .92 then RSS 2.0 vs RSS 1.0 or how about RSS 2.0 vs Adam 0.3 and soon the RSS 2.0 vs Adam 1.0 brouhaha, it’s oh so typical of what’s going on within the Open Source community.

Most projects are the work of rugged individualists who enlist support from the community and corporations, but they need a Scobleizer to mention them everyday in his blog and to link to everyone else who does so as to give the appearance they are becoming accepted. [Read the rest]