[Note: I run Debian on my laptop and servers. And I use Gnome 3! <ducks>] >Well from an outsider look I'd say the problem is the >majority of busine

[Note: I run Debian on my laptop and servers. And I use Gnome 3! <ducks>] >Well from an outsider look I'd say the problem is the >majority of businesses are running Windows and have reasons >not to move off Windows. [I understand that you soften this later, but...] This is not a Bad Thing. I certainly would say that MS has used some nasty tactics to gain dominance, but more power to them if they provide value to customers. Personally, I don't see the value in the ROS project. MS provides a product that people use on servers and that's fine. The ROS team's calories would be much better expended helping Linux improve. > its also completely true that Linux and Unix is completely rubbish > at certain things Windows excels at. I'd love an example here. AFAIK, ROS is basically a server OS and I'm not aware of any places that Windows demolishes Linux/Unix in the server arena (except in the I've-got-an-army-of-Windows-IT-folks department).