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Agreed

I agree completely. The Linux development model is incremental and pluralistic. This means lots of people contribute to it and it is released in small steps rather than big leaps (followed by lots of PR monkey shaking to convince people it isn't a pile of untested crap).

Given that the desktop market is monopolised by Microsoft it is unlikely that a competitor to Windows, no matter how good they are, will be adopted tsunami-fashion.

It's all about attrition.

Anyway, the biggest commercial opportunity is using Linux as an OS for network services.

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