>However, the fact that most Linux users don't call or pay for tech support is because they don't have to. Linux doesn't crash very often.

The fact that it doesn't crash does not logically lead to Linux users not paying for support.

Most of the calls I get when friends or family have support questions on Windows aren't "My computer crashed" cause all I could say is "Turn it back on?", they are more like, how can I connect to my cable modem, how can I make my scanner automatically email my pictures, blah blah blah. Not somethign Linux has be conditioned for. Once you open the flood gates of users, "Linux Support" will mean somethign entirely different.

>Besides, the talk about making money selling propriatary software on PCs may be moot if the path of PC evolution continues the way it's going, with all apps becoming embedded in hardware, which is where the profit will be. How many of you can write embedded apps?

All apps becoming embedded in hardware is where you think the PC industry will end up? Dang, and here I thought we atcually made progress over the last 20 years.

>Have you read Microsoft's website on the benies of using XP as an embedded OS? Have you run TCO analyses comparing XP against the Linux kernel in embedded space? It's very interesting.

Phhht.