Linux Foundation Makes Open Source Boring

superapecommando noted an essay by Glyn Moody where he writes "In the early days of free software, the struggle was just to get companies to try this new and rather unconventional approach, without worrying too much about how that happened. That typically meant programs entering by the back door, surreptitiously installed by in-house engineers who understood the virtues of the stuff — and that it was easier to ask for forgiveness after the event than for permission before. [The Linux Foundation tries] to take all the fun out of free software. They are about removing the quirkiness and the riskiness that has characterized free software in business for the last decade and a half, and seek to replace it with nice, safe systems that senior management will instantly fall in love with. In a word, they seek to make open source boring for the enterprise. That's not only good news for companies, it's a really important step for the Linux Foundation."

Re:Now it is dangerous

[Pharmboy]

But we allied with Open Source. We have always been at war with Closed Source.

Re:If Zero down time is boring...

[Kepesk]

Sitting all alone, in the corner of the server room... waiting for something - nay, anything to happen. The only thing you have left to hope for is the odd hardware failure... Each failed drive is like a joy ride, each blown out power supply is like a day at the fair.

Soon, you find yourself wishing, hoping for these things to happen. Then one day you can't resist anymore. You plug way too many things into the same power source, causing an outage. Finally something to get out of your seat! It feels so good to actually have something to do.

This happens a few more times. Never the same thing twice; you don't want people to catch on, right? But even then it begins to lose its interest. Where are the software crashes, the mystery failures that used to happen with the old systems? Sometimes they took days to figure out. There's no mystery anymore.

Then one day it happens. You finally break down and sneak a Microsoft product onto one of your servers...

Is open source software the gateway drug to Microsoft?

Re:Pr0n?

[Ironhandx]

I believe the above suggestion, however immature and redundant it may seem, could actually lead to the "Year of Linux on the Desktop" finally happening.

Re:If Zero down time is boring...

[dkleinsc]

You know, there's another solution to this perennial boredom problem: Reading other people's email.