Goten Xiao

South England

Programmer

And Microsoft cutting costs is a bad thing? For that quality of software?

Oh, right - it's not enough for Gates to possess several billion dollars. He wants enough money to buy the United States and turn it into Gatesland.

Sheesh. Can't take a little competition. Sony seem to do all right, as do Nintendo and all the hundreds of game developers out there... But Microsoft and Linux can't coexists because...? Ah! Because Gates won't accept anything less than a monopoly, because he's a money-and-power-greedy S.O.B.

On the other hand, maybe because Linux, in comparison to Windows, is overwhelmingly better (for some applications. And if game developers start compiling for Linux as well, there won't be much that Windows has an advantage with), which means that people will save their cash and go with an option that costs less.

And everyone knows that you can't get more competetive that free. (And yes, I know you have to pay for CDs; but even those can be bought cheaply. £1.50-£4 doesn't sound like much to me for an OS and a ton of software...)