Linux and the Unix Philosophy

They cannot fully benefit from software leverage because they are not sharing

anything that others can augment and give back to them. So, most Windows

operating system innovation is undertaken by the Microsoft developers and is

thereby limited by their vision. Open-source developers, on the other hand,

have the much larger open-source development community to draw from

for ideas. In terms of sheer size, the open-source development community

dwarfs Microsoft’s internal development community. And that—Microsoft’s

superb marketing efforts notwithstanding—will ultimately be Microsoft’s

downfall.

At the time of this writing, the Linux development community ...