I completely understand your point, but I think it's fair to say that most .Net code will run on Windows server, and that pretty much everything else will run o

I completely understand your point, but I think it's fair to say that most .Net code will run on Windows server, and that pretty much everything else will run on some kind of linux flavor. Just like you have a "keep the default framework setting" approach to help compare very different frameworks because that's how the majority of people will use them, you may very well assume that comparing frameworks on their preferred OS is fair enough. I know that i wouldn't mind switching to a windows+.Net environment if it proved to be much much faster than what i'm using right now.