>I speak only from the prospective I am familiar with - The San Francisco Bay Area. There is a hard core group of developers against Microsoft and they are very vocal. They are small in number but they get media attention, just like a mass murder receives attention.

Microsoft has nothing to do with this thread. Never once did anyone say that x was better than y.

>With open source and free applications there are n versions of any given application. This can be a problem as no standards are being followed by more than a select group. As for Linex operation systems they too have the same type of problems with open standards. Do your own thing and someone else will do his/her own thing and we will all live happily ever after.

>Can you imagine going into a corporation that has no standards and each computer has a different version of a Linex operating system and different versions of applications? Spread that out to your clients and try to control what is going on. Linex will be great fun when it replaces Microsoft – everything is free – even the headaches.

First off buddy, it's LINUX. There is no 'E'. You are wrong about OpenSource development. If you would read up on it, you would find that there is always a central group that manages the development so that you don't have n versions of the app. There is always a set of standards developed before the app is started.
As for the Linux operating system, all of the distributions have a common kernel. That's what linux is. It is a kernel, not a collection of programs. The different distributions are merely different packages of applications with a common kernel, and yes, some install things in different locations, but all have the same base. That is why you can compile the source to a program on any distribution. Welcome the makefile.
No, I can't imagine going into a corporation that has no standards, but that has nothing to do with linux. You are uneducated on the Linux topic. Do some research, then come back.