Don't laugh, it could work -- they could make an argument that, at least at first, doing a "soft release" on Linux first gives them access to a huge group of re

Don't laugh, it could work -- they could make an argument that, at least at first, doing a "soft release" on Linux first gives them access to a huge group of relatively savvy beta testers. It would just be icing on the cake that they don't have to pay 30% or whatever to anybody else for those early adopters.