The ceremony
The interest of IT's main actors towards Free Software, towards its enthusiasm and reactivity, keeps growing -- even though their marketing departments, in order to reassure their investors, commonly (mis)name it the 'Open Source community.'
What makes the children of free digital knowledge keep going is the will to share and the power to create. They also benefit from the experience gained through partnerships with private companies and in their R&D labs. IBM has set up such partnerships a long time ago.