CNet Blog Network contributor Matt Asay writes:

Linus Torvalds used to talk about "world domination" as his goal for Linux. These days, though, while we seem to be making progress toward this end, we also appear to be increasingly complacent. We downplay the ideology that underlies open source in favor of "safe" rhetoric about lower sales and marketing costs and such.

Thanks Matt. I love reading your blogs, but I fear you're over-complicating things here. Another way to state that FOSS is not living up to its hype, that its not all its cracked up to be, and that its supporters are increasingly happy with lowered exepectations is: "reality settles in on FOSS."

I'll await word from Mr. Asay on whether digital copyrights and software patents can help explain the sudden pedestrian state of FOSS.