From the perspective of many, including myself, it is easier to develop apps for Windows than for Linux. While having software that's open source on the Pi wou

From the perspective of many, including myself, it is easier to develop apps for Windows than for Linux. While having software that's open source on the Pi would be awesome, what would be even more awesome is tonnes of apps on Github that are easier to write for the Raspberry pi to allow it to do more than it can currently such as Media Streamers & Servers of all sorts with tonnes of forks. For what its worth, this is giant leaps forward for Microsoft and vastly uncharacteristic of what they're used to. It shows that they're hell bent on driving their platform through developers. The typical R-pi purchaser is a dev after all.