Darren New wrote:

> What's not "viable" about Linux et al?

It's still not [yet] as easy to use.

Most hardware companies don't supply drivers for it, and refuse to hand 
over the information required for anybody else to write those drivers.

If you're into gaming, forget it. Almost no big developers target that 
platform.

>> Unfortunately, thanks to M$, this situation will never arise. If 
>> anybody starts making really good software, they'll just get bought...
> 
> And how does MS "buy" Linux?

They can't buy Linux. They can, however, pay the hardware guys to only 
supply new computers with M$ Windows preinstalled, make them sign 
agreements not to develop drivers for other platforms, and so forth.

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