* Theo v. Werkhoven (twe-suse.e@ferrets4me.xs4all.nl) [030601 17:08]: -> ->No it doesn't, the thought that they can't play their games and that ->they don't get all these "funny" emails with flash/java/mediafiles or ->who knows what scares them away. -> Actually, it's partly the things above that scare people away, but the other 70% of the reason people haven't yet jumped on Linux is that they don't really grasp why they should change. They think every system has virus problems and they really don't understand the differences. So they think " Why should I go to the trouble to change, what I have works just fine and it's a " standard ". Even though what a standard is can be debated until the cows come home. They are just apathetic to it. The things that make people change are things such as iTunes or some other " ohhh..I have to have that .." application. Things are progressing slowly but steady. This is a good thing. I would be happy if the industry would just think of computing as having 3 standard environments so that when software, drivers and hardware are produced that they keep Windows, OSX and Linux in mind and everything works with each. That would be fine with me. But Microsoft returning to being an applications company only or dying outright over time would make me happy as well. I honestly don't want Microsoft to die to quickly because to many people make their living with that crap and I wouldn't want them to not be able to support their families..so a slow death and re-training of the talent out there would be nice. :) -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in the opposite direction.