It focused on the trials and travails on the personal side that a geek has. It clearly showed the emotional side from the geek's point of view. I thought it was pretty funny.
For a while the press and the market was preoccupied with this question about whether Linux was going to kill Windows and whether Linux fundamentally introduced a value proposition was going to pull users away from Microsoft. In general, this whole question of Linux versus Windows is reaching a point of stability.
They need to generate community interest in the actual development project and then establish a business model that can leverage the benefits of that community.
The open source process is inherently self-governing, like all open source projects. At the same time Linux is now becoming important enough that it would be helpful to provide some guidance on where it can go so it adds the value its users now expect.
I see the decision about provisioning software as the next strategic decision to be made.
The stakes are high for the outcome of this decision.
It's a much more complex set of software.
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