It's an interesting question I know a lot of people for whom desire to unseat MS was a major driver in the amount of effort they dedicated to various open sourc

It's an interesting question I know a lot of people for whom desire to unseat MS was a major driver in the amount of effort they dedicated to various open source proj. Would truly be interesting to see how things would look if MS did not reach it's dominant position. (One possible outcome could have being that IBM would've remained in it's dominant position).