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?

I use a really simple calendar program on my computer.

Linux is only free if your time has no value.

Any time someone says "that's it, I'm leaving" I ask them whether they'd prefer to live under US domestic policy, or US foreign policy. As bad as things get inside an empire, they're usually worse in the protectorates.

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.

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