nemesis wrote:
> I think they are more worried about enterprise Linux server installs, 
> which go beyond that puny 1% mark.

That, and maybe stuff like OpenOffice?  MS wouldn't want an open source 
competitor to Exchange that runs on Linux either.  If you can FUD about 
Linux being useless for the desktop, and you can FUD that you can't get 
Linux and Windows to cooperate even with OSS software, you can keep 
something like ExchangeSubstitute from getting good.

> It means suddenly Visual Studio developers may be targetting MySQL or 
> PostgreSQL databases rather than SQL Server, for instance.  Heck, they 
> may end up even using open-source libs rather than what's in the Windows 
> API if control is too loose over them... :P

If you're doing Windows stuff that ports to Linux, you're better off 
building Linux libs that mimic the Windows stuff anyway, methinks.

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