Linux Supporters Say Microsoft Is 'Running Scared'

@Avery: You're kidding, right?  Please tell me you're kidding.

@ Micheal - yes - it surprises me too to hear that others haven't even heard of Linux. I actually had never heard of Linux until someone gave me a Knoppix disc.

I feel enlightened and free now that I actually use Linux on a daily basis, no windows in the house, and I try to get others on board also, but, yes, I run into the same scenario all the time where look at me like I'm insane when I tell them about the "other" operating system, especially the ones that still use Win 98 for goodness sake.

I would like to see more people using Linux, but I have realized that some people can barely use windows, so I leave them alone.

These types of people will stay up all night trying to figure out the new Windows media Center PC they just bought, but when you tell them there is another way, they cringe.

It really is a sad case for the computing world today. We need to get the younger ones on board with Linux because the older, "set in my ways " types will never change.

@ Everyone reading this - Please use Ubuntu Linux and visit www.ubuntuforums.com for any and all help. As a matter of fact, go to the forums first and read about installing and migrating first, before you make the Linux plunge. Go ahead, take the blue pill.

If we only have the force of users plunging onto Linux, we create the problems for the users on one aspect - The inadequate software available, as well as Device Driver Support. Lets face it: The verierty of Software available for Microsoft is even more than Linux.

More focus has to be shifted to Commercial Software Vendors to also migrate efforts to Linux, and Device manufacturers for Device support. The software has to be "Commercial" and not open source for one reason - Most developers are in it for the cash. Open Source projects depend on Sponsors. Vendors make money on Open Source projects also through sponsors. So there has to be a major commercial effort and campaign on Linux.

Only when the users are satisfied with the verierty that Linux would offer in comparison to Windows then, can they make migration an instant success. But we cannot run away from the fact that Even if Linux is open source, most corporations prefer Windows because the market that it has offers it the most accurate solutions they need, Linux will change what they call - already 100% perfect solutions. So I guess also lets also think corporate for migration purposes. Lets think of what the Big People and Software users expect to have, how they expect to be served.

Linux needs a Commercial Market to beat microsoft.

Linux os in all its flavours, is just an os, like MS Windows,  I just cannot stand the zealots who proclaim you must use linux. After all it is about freedom of choice.  There is room for both, I used to use windows , now I use Linux however still got a hd with xp. Microsoft are not scared they have their market already.  Linux is good at what it does, and who it does it for. CHILL OUT AND STAY COOL.