Void Main wrote:Otherwise, I'm happy right where it's at since I run it on all my servers at work, all my desktops at work and all my desktops at home. I could care less what other people do as long as it doesn't effect what I need to do. Unfortunately it does effect me considering all the SPAM I get from zombie Windows machines, wasted bandwidth on all the viruses/worms/trojans on all the Windows machines, non-standard web sites and documents, etc, etc, etc. But for the most part I'm good right where things are.
I'd be a little more worried about hardware if I were you. It would be so easy for someone to come out with a new PC technology, and then only give documentation to Microsoft, effectively locking Linux out of the hardware. Actually, I still wonder if Intel's sudden adoption of SATA was designed to lock out (or at least set back) Linux - if it was, it worked! Of course something like this doesn't really hurt in the short run, because it doesn't affect my hardware or the availability of hardware compatible with my computer. But in the long run, it could have an effect on what is easily available, forcing new computer buyers to run back to Windows, while the rest of us hang onto our supported hardware for dear life. It could be a pretty sad scene.
See, if a distro like Ubuntu was to get, say, 30% of verifiable market share, and remain open, I think hardware manufacturers would have no choice but to include their user base as an important market. And even a cash-ho like Adobe would be suicidal not to get the latest plugins onto that platform.
I like Linux too, and it doesn't seem to affect me at all what other people use. But it does affect me, and to ignore that hurts not only me, but the community at large.
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