Views on Linux in Business
July 9th, 2002[Original Link] Doc Searls quotes Vint Cerf: “The history of the Net is the history of its protocols”.
And then in this Linux Journal article he emphasises
…that the real virtue of Linux and other forms of infrastructural software…is not only that it’s open and free, but that it’s transparent. It is see-thru infrastructure. In fact, what makes it infrastructural is the fact that you can see through it. You can trust it because it has no secrets.
…Bill [Gates] says, “Trustworthy Computing is computing that is as available, reliable and secure as electricity, water services and telephony.” We should note that all those services are pure infrastructure whose workings are mostly transparent.