sam>  A. It will come with their OS.  B. They will get it from a
sam> seperate distributor, such as Ximian (http://www.ximian.com).
sam> C. They will compile it from source.

sam> On Windows, the situation is entirely different.  A will never
sam> happen, B does not exist, and C is impossible for most people.  I

Au contraire, there a well-established 3rd party distributors of free
stuff for Windows.  www.download.com, tucows, etc.  Those are major
distributors for non-commercial software.  For example, most people
get WinZIP from such a place (or are redirected to the canonical site
from such a place).
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