It's interesting to note that each poll option falls into one of two categories: something that gives other people more power over children, or something that gives children more power over the world/other people.

I wonder which category will be more popular, and which category would have been more popular had the poll question been:

"What would you have wanted your parents to install inside of you?"

The could have budgeted some money for future updates to the Linux game. Just look at what happens to most closed source/commerical Linux native games:

1. The game is released. It may run well on most contemporary systems.
2. Time passes and critical libraries break ABI compatibility. (I'm looking at you, glibc).
3. The game no longer runs on modern systems.

For good longevity, a closed source game would need some kind of ABI shim between the closed executable and the multitude of unstable open source ABIs. For most games, this shim is called "wine" and that state of affairs makes me sad.

Yes, choice, variety, and competition are horrible things aren't they?

They have real disadvantages. http://www.columbia.edu/~ss957/whenchoice.html

(Yes, believe it or not, there ARE other distros; although it is hard to tell since so many stories and postings say "Ubuntu" in place of the word "Linux" or "Linux distribution")

Isn't it great? I can't wait until the days of users asking, "So I should try Linux. Which distro should I use?" and getting useless or contradictory answers are long forgotten.