arket prices. "Moreover, it could do so for a significant period of time without losing an unacceptable amount of business to competitors," the judge wrote. "In other words, Microsoft enjoys monopoly power in the relevant market." (Cooper, 1999, P1)The OSS has also provided new competition to the Microsoft Monopoly in the OS market. Hoping to do what others, like Apple, IBM, and even Sun have attempted to do, and take market share from Windows. With the extreme complexity required in creating, and even managing the development of an OS, it seems impossible that a not for profit organization could pull it off. But to the amazement of many, it has been done. Not only was it done but an OS was created that now rival not only the home desktop systems, but also large computer systems in use by major corporations. GNU/Linux is the outcome of the combined effort of hundred of thousands if not millions of programmers all around the world combining their effort. This was managed through two primary groups, the Free Software Foundation (FSF), and Linus Torvalids. Initially it was not even the goal for these two groups to work together. But both their systems of software control allowed them to share the best ideas and source from each group to form one Operating System. The FSF runs the GNU project which “had set forth the goal of developing a free Unix-like system, called GNU”(Stallman, 1998, P1). Linus and his crew of volunteers created the kernel for the Operating System. The kernel is the core of an OS, and does most of the back end work that is needed.the Linux community seemed to resemble a great babbling bazaar of differing agendas and approaches (aptly symbolized by the Linux archive sites, who'd take submissions from anyone) out of which a coherent and stable system could seemingly emerge only by a succession of miracles.The fact that this bazaar style seemed to work, and work well, came as a distinct shock. (OSI)I...
