>>We had this freedom of using Linux, and Microsoft has been taking it back. The only thing taking your freedom back is the economics of selling Linux Desktops

>>We had this freedom of using Linux, and Microsoft has been taking it back. The only thing taking your freedom back is the economics of selling Linux Desktops/Laptops. And the only thing stopping that is the Linux ecosystem fragmentation. I'm sorry but no hardware vendor will lose sleep over some thousand developers wanting to run fragmented versions of Linux on their hardware. >>Microsoft doesn't appreciate freedom The purpose of companies is to maximize their profits. >> this is why they used to fight open source and make open source communities look like bunch of marginalized geeks. And they've by and large failed. The other part about open source's economics is beyond the scope of Microsoft's actions.