You must be a Windows User and not someone who works or uses UNIX / Linux. You have no idea how useful Linux / UNIX is used in the corporate network. UNIX / Linux is the most secure OS available, it doesn’t matter if it’s free or not. Linux is because of the GNU/GPL license, yet UNIX still costs money. The average customer doesn’t care about Linux or UNIX because it does nothing for them. Most Windows users would say they can do the same thing using a GUI instead of typing in commands at a prompt. In IT UNIX / Linux is are greatest resource. If you take a look at a good UNIX server you’ll find that most have only been shutdown to do a major release candidate update (RC). I know IT System Admins (UNIX) that have not rebooted their UNIX server in almost 15 years. Why? Because there is no need to. Unlike Windows that breaks. Even most web servers now a days use Linux Distributions not because it’s free but it’s more reliable, and has better security. Something that OpenSource has that Microsoft will probably never have.

UNIX and Linux are made for people who know what they are doing. Programmers, and IT System Admins are probably the highest amount of people out there that use UNIX or Linux enviroment.

[...] 451 CAOS Theory » LinuxWorld 2008 - nobody cares "Vendors supporting various operating systems indicated there is less care about the underlying OS." - i pretty much never hear this. if anything, the opposite: ISVs grumble about the difficulty of supporting multiple OSs, and that Linux != one OS (tags: linux 451group linuxworld support operatingsystems jaylyman) [...]

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