fwiw, I won't buy an android until it can decently natively display indic and other fonts. and for that, they need to resolve this bug running since 2009

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=4153

1. hdhr
2. mythtv backend/fileserver/apache/(linux maser of the universe)
3. roku
4. mythtv frontend
5. Netgear SPH200D (for skype)
6. brother 2070n (network printer)
7. iphone
8. iphone
9. ipad
10. wireless camera
11. 2 switches.
12. 5Ghz wireless bridge
13. Useless Dell PC running ubuntu
14. Thinkpad t61P ubuntu

phew!

In short this sounds like a proxy war tactic. MSFT has the "OEMs" lock down future BIOS to boot just Windows OS.

"Oh you wanna run Linux on your machine..? Too bad your OEM does not allow that...! Instead please keep staring at that shiny Windows sticker on your machine...!

Profit!

//FWIW, I and my org will not be buying hardware locked down to a MSFT OS. Get a clue, if you want my $$.

I've made skype popular! Despite being a linux user! I've introduced it to at least 30+ people - they have in-turn added others - think of it as the "Rabbit Problem" - I persuaded them to abandon other platforms (yahoo/msn messengers mostly) to move onto skype. Of course, they liked their experience with skype and thats why they chose to stay, thanks to its p2p nature -- allowing it to scale massively. if the so called alternative is good enough, I will do this again - play Moses again - onto the new promised better alternative - However, Ekiga, Empathy, Linphone, Jitsi, Google talk etc available for Linux out there now are quite SHITTY as of now & dont qualify enough to taunt my voip contacts with.
Will do skype as long as it works on linux. sigh!

unless its another browser competing with safari? like say, firefox for iphone!

except those precompiled debs at gedeb dont give you av/vv capabilities yet. http://webupd8.blogspot.com/2009/08/pidgin-260-adds-voice-and-video.html#comment-15056475

The true geek runs his own mail server.

Haa..! Until the ISP decides to block traffic to/from your port 25.
Then the true geek would go ahead and do smtp auth, STARTTLS etc.
Then, he would realise that its not worth it, and bows before the ISP lords, and goes to sign up for gmail.com.