“Due to the overwhelming amount of e-mail we have received regarding Dan Lyons’ Oct 14th story, “Linux’s Hit Men”, it has become impossible to respond individually. Instead we have opened a special discussion board devoted to this story. Please go there to post your opinion. Dan has promised to weigh in on occasion. –Eds.”

There are already over 200 comments up on the site, so go join the discussion! The author seems to think that any piece of software released for Linux must have it’s source code disclosed, which isn’t true. It is true in the case of Linksys, however, as they modified the Linux kernel directly for their 802.11g broadband routers.