Matt Asay shares his thoughts after having a talk with Mark Shuttleworth (warning: site contains flashy ads that made my Firefox's CPU usage go through the roof for some time).

In general, the article seems to be a bit chaotic and lacking proper depth. Some of Asay's conclusions aren't clearly explained. The reader gets the feeling his conclusions are correct but he fails to fully support his thoughts.

Despite these flaws, Asay makes some really interesting points. Apart from the praise for SADBFL, the article touches the following subjects:

  • a value of being strictly open source vendor
  • a potential of Web 2.0 for FOSS world
  • motive's behind Microsoft's "Linux infringes on our patents" campaign
  • benefits of having many forks of software projects