[webschooner]

Linux is really positioned well for this segment of the market. Which is why I think in the long run you’ll see it become dominant in anything that isn’t a personal computer.

I wholeheartedly agree. I own the G1, the first mobile phone with the open-source Linus-based Android OS. It's an awesome system, with a multitude of both free and pay applications available for it. Android has been a great success, and is coming out on many additional phones and other devices from many varied carriers, worldwide, in 2009. It will also be migrating to netbooks, and I think from there, the logical jump will be to desktops.

[Scythian]

There is a guy who has gotten Mono (Microsoft for the Linux platform) to compile and run under Android, so Microsoft .NET Mobile Apps will run under Android. So .NET apps will run under Android, Mirosoft has got to wake up and get behind Mono

http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page