Competition is always good. I agree with that. But you don't need Windows or OSX for competition. There are already multiple DE's and WM's for Linux that are

Competition is always good. I agree with that. But you don't need Windows or OSX for competition. There are already multiple DE's and WM's for Linux that are already competing with each other. > There are features of Linux Desktop they probably would never have existed if they hadn't been created on Windows or OSX. I doubt that. In an alternate universe where windows and OSX never existed, I'm pretty sure someone somewhere would have thought up those features and implemented them.