Re:Crass commercialism? No, it's called Real Life. (Score 1)

On the first two points I should agree. Your third statement (programming), however is not what I experienced. Windows API is very closed, you can't really find out what you're doing (just try). The *DSB/Linux approach gives you much more insight in what the system is doing.

I (and many more, conserning the high amount of linux machines at software componies (I've read 40% of them uses Linux in some way for software development)) am enjoying Linux development much more than I ever enjoyed Windows development. It's just that open source apps are more opague...