[AdA$tra]

Look at all those soccer countries. There has to be a correlation. I have always looked to Nambia when making mission critical business decisions. No offense to any of the other soccer countries noted, but I don't think we as Americans or business men, look to any of those counries as a template for much of anything. Perhaps the UK, but even then we fought a couple of wars to be independant of their Linux based monarchy.

[Knitebane]

Look at all those soccer countries. There has to be a correlation. I have always looked to Nambia when making mission critical business decisions. No offense to any of the other soccer countries noted, but I don't think we as Americans or business men, look to any of those counries as a template for much of anything. Perhaps the UK, but even then we fought a couple of wars to be independant of their Linux based monarchy.

I still fail to see what sports are popular in a country have to do with the reality that Linux on the desktop is happening.

And as far as what we can learn from other countries, I suggest that you examine the history of the auto industry in the last 50 years. Japanese car companies nearly destroyed US car companies in the 1970's. Chrysler required a bailout. Ford and GM weren't much better off. It was because of their inability to change with the times and their belief that the American car buyer would continue to buy junk because it had always been that way that nearly destroyed them.

And you might want to examine the US consumer electronics industry as well. Once upon a time, every TV manufactured was manufactured in this country. Now none of them are. The companies that survived were nearly all bought out by the Japanese after losing nearly all of their market to Asian firms.

Advance or be discarded, that's the reality of business. The US auto industry learned that lesson painfully, the US consumer electronics industry even more so. If the US computer industry persists on sticking with a legacy operating system, the results will be the same.