>> The primary reason why people use Linux cause it's GPLd software, that's 
the primary driving force.

I would have to argue that's not the case. I use Linux and have for over a 
decade not because it's GPL but because it's useful and remains fairly 
constant over time. In a past life I used IBM mainframe OS's for the same 
reason. Those "old fashioned" machines were amazingly upwardly compatible. 
Old software would run just as well or even better on new releases of the 
OS as they did on the old. That could never be said of Microsoft or even 
Apple. 

I hate Microsoft for that reason. Anytime MS offers an upgrade, it's really 
a downgrade in capability and an increase in costs. I've been through a 
dozen iterations of "nix" software and each time it was smooth and 
everything that previously worked still worked.

-John Coryat

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