The success in Linux

An article recently put out, asks the question "Why are there no Linux billionaires?"

What is the problem with there being no "billionaires"?

That's the problem with most of the people associated with this, they automatically equate success to expanse of finances.

There are many ways to define or describe "success", yet most people only seem to see the money.

Financial success does not always equate to success of a company, person or product.

MS, Bill Gates and others have made huge sums of money, becoming financially successful selling a product that even most of it's regular users consider to be a sub-par product. The primary reason for the money related "success" is due to the early use of lock-in tactics, forcing and requiring customers to use only their specified products, lacking any real competitors, again due to shady business practices tied to the product.

Also, this world has not become a "better" place with the advent of more wealthy people. More money has not improved the lifestyles of the majority of the world.

Advances in improved technology has helped make improvements though, and much of that technology that has made improvements in life in general, no matter what part of the world, has come from technology derived from social concerns and a desire to build social success, not financial success.

Financial success will come to those who desire to make other success happen first. Looking to Linux to become a billionaire will not help Linux or technology or the world in general. it will only maybe help one person (or group of persons) get more money. That's it.

Linux, isn't about making money. Go ahead, ask the people who gave it it's birth. It's about advancing the technology and the way people can access it.

If you want to make billions on software, go hang out with MS, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, IBM, Apple, etc. that's what they do.

If you want to improve technology and make it easier for people to access it, then come into the Linux world.