>>>>That still hasn't stopped thousands of applications from being developed with it....and ones that compete directly with Microsoft products.

Craig, there is something interesting with someone who contributes to a thread to antagonize. Some of your points are good but it seems that you like to try to bend the point of a post to be antagonistic.

I'm sure you are a very nice man, but there is no need to do that here, and it won't change my mind about you, no matter how hard you try. Be well.