
much more attuned to overcoming proprietary approaches to software devel
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opment than the Unix community ever realized that it had to be.
The Linux community is more savvy, market-wise, too. It recognizes that
for Linux to win, it must outthink, outplay, and outspin the competition at
every turn. It’s doing an outstanding job. The Linux developers, rumored to
be more than a million, are vociferously challenging the works of the other
operating system developers on their own turf in every vital area: ease of instal
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lation, graphical user interface, hardware compatibility, reliability, security,
performance, web development, databases, games, and so ...