> "What do you think would happen?" Microsoft would sell something else (e.g. Office365, or hardware) and give free Windows licenses with it, or sell them via

> "What do you think would happen?" Microsoft would sell something else (e.g. Office365, or hardware) and give free Windows licenses with it, or sell them via a different government (international sales), or lobby so the law gets undone 1 minute after the deadline, or some other loophole. > "Hell no! What would happen is the world would move on from Windows and the world would be a better place for it." Linux users can't make Linux desirable, so they want authority to ban the competition. So much for "freedom". > "Something that's been desperately needed for like two decades now." People weren't interested enough in buying BeOS, and Linux organisations can't even give it away for free. What evidence of "desperate need" are you seeing?