From: "Geo." 

"Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
news:3ecf49f4{at}w3.nls.net...

> Pure economic forces can work w/o any gov intervention so long as there
> is choice. Linux is demonstrably a "valid choice" & is
becoming more so
> with every passing month.

As long as the different OS require different application software, there
is no valid choice. If you want to run Autocad or PageMaker or Maya or any
of thousands of other platform specific software then you go with the
platform it runs on, there is no choice involved if your purpose is set.

Geo.

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