The religious fervor has definitely faded, yet we're in the largest open source software renaissance of all time. The reason is probably because OSS has "won". Not in the absolute sense that all software is open, but in the sense that businesses have fully realized the impact Eric Raymond prophesied in the late 90s.
I attribute this at least in part to the dot.com bust. FOSS, commodity x86s, etc. became a necessary virtue when you couldn't get VCs to shovel enough money to you to buy the expensive closed source stuff.
Did anyone use MySQL because it was a better database than Oracle? (OK, it was probably easier to administer, so substitute DB2 if you wish.)
I attribute this at least in part to the dot.com bust. FOSS, commodity x86s, etc. became a necessary virtue when you couldn't get VCs to shovel enough money to you to buy the expensive closed source stuff.
Did anyone use MySQL because it was a better database than Oracle? (OK, it was probably easier to administer, so substitute DB2 if you wish.)