The best comment I read was this:
Quit crying and just get linux!
Fedora Core released version 5 on March 20. It was developed at a cost of...zero. To get it to install on your computer costs...zero.
It just works. It does not, however, do many XP standards, such as BSOD, virus and spyware.
How much of Windows Vista Bleak Landscape was developed offshore?
The "Cheap Crap" theory.
No thanks. Linux still has issues with usability and support. It's certainly far beyond where it was even two years ago, but it's still not enough.
At this point the only true alternative is OS X, and I hesitate to call it an alternative given how far ahead OS X is of everything else.
Don't get me started about Fedora.
It just works. It is damn easy to install.
I also have Solaris 10. It is hard as hell to install. It does not work out of the box the way Fedora does.
Except that that statement is false.
I'm running Fedora Core 4 (on the machine I'm typing on) and love it. But "zero cost"? That's a joke, right? What's the value of the programmers' time, over the last 10 years and especially in the last two years, to produce the RedHat and FC series?
The "free" Linux distros were contributed by the community -- people's personal time -- and to some degree bankrolled by supporting companies. It's a beautiful thing. But no way was all that development done at zero cost. People still gotta eat, put gas in their cars, and companies were "investing".
For the blogger to call that process "zero cost" is ignorant.