OIN == Death of F/OSS

I can't believe that El Reg are posting this as any kind of a Good Thing.

It is an undeniably Bad Thing.

Great, so this little clique of multi-million (billion) dollar companies can all afford to get involved in F/OSS development, without suing each other.

Isn't that lovely for them? What about the guy in the basement? The Finnish student (Linux), the MIT researcher (GNU), the band of webmasters (Apache), the small team of dedicated engineers (SAMBA and lots of ofter projects)?

None of these projects could have even started within such an environment.