And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux.

Mostly I use the O2 as an X terminal, however, running my apps on Linux and displaying remotely.

Linux is only free if your time has no value.

Why should someone have to retrain themselves to use a new application that does the same basic thing as the old application, just because something as trivial as the operating system changed out from under them?

See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy.

You can divide our industry into two kinds of people: those who want to go work for a company to make it successful, and those who want to go work for a successful company.

Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.