In my “Open Source Paradigm Shift” paper, I draw analogies between the commodification of PC hardware and the commodification of software via open source and open standards, and make the case that the right model for Linux vendors to learn from is not software companies like Microsoft but supply-chain optimizers like Dell. (That has been the basis of my interest in companies like SpikeSource and SourceLabs, which focus on open source integration and testing.) So I was interested to see this note in Slashdot this morning: “The Linux Kernel is now getting automatically tested within 15 minutes of a new version being released, across a variety of hardware and the results are being published for all to see.”
