There have been many stories recently about how open source is beginning to 'legitimize' itself, how commercial companies are beginning to take open source and Linux in particular seriously, and how open source is itself starting to be a viable business model.

Actually this has been 'coming' for some time - you can look back as far as 2002 when the mainstream media started picking up what the effects of the Linux and open source model would be. For example, read Linux battle becomes political or Linux goes from strength to strength and you'll begin to see where we were header all those years ago. More recently the BBC has again examined the open source world with Open source turns money-spinner.