A preserved transcript of Andrew Morton's keynote at the 2004 Ottawa Linux Symposium, rescued from the Wayback Machine after the original Groklaw hosting was lost to crypto spam. Morton discusses the growing interest from large IT corporations in Linux, the economics of system software and high substitution costs, the challenges of integrating enterprise features into the mainline kernel, and the evolving kernel development model. He argues for keeping features in the mainline rather than vendor trees, urges corporations to better explain their feature requirements, and warns against vendor fragmentation. The talk also covers the new rolling 2.6 development cycle, API stability, and Morton's vision of corporate developers gradually becoming genuine free software contributors.
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