[stockpirate]

I be software engineer. I be having worked for big international software company, I had been subject matter expert. I be able to read and write.

My very simple DSL internet connection does not use junkware.

[Knitebane]

I be security engineer. I be having worked for big telecom provider. I had been Open Source software transition engineer. I been responsible for successfully migrating a dozen small and medium business off of legacy Microsoft software and onto Linux/FreeBSD/OpenBSD. I be able to read and write too. /end illiterate speak

Indeed, if what you've posted is an example of how well you read and write, I'd bet that I can read and write much better than you can.

My extremely complicated DSL-connected hosting service and connected lab network uses OpenBSD on security devices (firewall, intrusion detection, etc.) FreeBSD on servers and Linux on desktops (and some other miscellaneous machines)

I have one copy of Windows, Windows 98. It runs on a stand-alone, non-networked machine. I use it for games.

After having been paid to clean and advise on the cleaning of hundreds of Windows machines, I won't allow shoddy Microsoft operating systems on my network.

If you think that Open Source software is junkware, perhaps you've been living under a rock for the past five years or so.

Oracle works on Linux, Google runs on Linux, Free Repbulic runs on Linux and uses Perl.

Many of the current DSL routers on the market run Linux. So do many of the top-listed supercomputers.

Linux is in data centers, on hundreds of thousands of desktops, in huge render farms, database clusters and on web servers.

So you can call it junkware if you want, but you'd be wrong.