Businessweek highlights Linux

Businessweek Online has produced a package on The Linux Uprising -- a grand total of 10 articles plus charts and graphs. Although it continues to peddle the myth that the development was started by Linus Torvalds, it also notes the ongoing transition of GNU/Linux from a grass roots movement to a corporate operating system peddled mainly by IBM, Hewlett-Packard and other industrial giants, to whom the cost of the operating system is trivial compared to the hardware with which it is bundled. (And yes, it does represent a much better deal for users than being tied into a proprietary operating system or a vendor-dependent flavour of Unix.) It will also be interesting to see whether this sort of serious Linux coverage marks a change at BWO, which too often tends to come across like an Apple fanzine.