[Poser]

"I'm telling you Linux is about a year or two away from taking over the consumer market."

At some point in the first half of the 1980s I attended a conference in Boston. Two of the featured speakers were Jim Seymour and John C. Dvorak. They were debating whether UNIX would replace Windows.

Nothing has changed.

Linux is a threat to UNIX, not Windows.

[StJacques]

". . . Linux is a threat to UNIX, not Windows."

That is the absolute truth and there are quite a few site on the web touting Linux's advantages over UNIX to support that.

[usgator]

I'm telling you Linux is about a year or two away from taking over the consumer market.

So you think Linux will over-take a market that they currently only have an 8%, or so, share in?  In 2 years?

ummm ... okay, if you say so.

[antiRepublicrat]

Linux is a threat to UNIX, not Windows.

Given Microsoft's campaign against Linux, it's obvious that Microsoft thinks Linux is a threat to Windows.