"Where once Samba and Apache sold Linux to the world they are now just part of the plumbing."
What I'm taking away from this article is that indeed Linux has became plumbing. Long gone are the glamorous times when Linux and the FOSS movement in general were the underdog and apparently the price for victory is becoming a commodity.
Why is being a commodity a "price"? Even if we are applying the (obsolete) ideals of commercial success, nearly every company I know of would love to be a commodity.
I didn't mean it that way, Linux did become ubiquitous but not in the way some people (including me) hoped it would. I mostly meant that despite being one of cornerstone of the internet, it's far from the glamorous future some of us hoped for.
What I'm taking away from this article is that indeed Linux has became plumbing. Long gone are the glamorous times when Linux and the FOSS movement in general were the underdog and apparently the price for victory is becoming a commodity.