Was his name "IBM"?  ;)  (not to make lite of the suicide part)

I'd say that if Apple keeps improving while not falling into the same practices, they will be stiff competition for Windows soon.  I just wish that they'd stop touting that damnable Finder interface as anything but annoying.  If you're the Mac-guy who does iPhoto and cutesy movies, alright.  But if you're like me (Computer-guy), you are a power user and Finder offers no such power for us.

Linux is great if you can find replacement software for most that you use, but as a developer for Windows and MacOS this seems like a doomed idea. :)

As a final thought on the whole anti-piracy thing, I'd like to say: What a bunch a bullocks!  The best computer people and developers have been saying this for, what, decades now:

"The only program (or OS) safe from hacking and cracking is the one that is never run"

M$ could pour trillions into counter-anti-counter-counter-anti-bulletproof-4GB-encryption technology and some snot-nosed kid in Russia will have a crack in a couple months - with the help of his networked AI computer demolition team. ;P  As a matter of fact, M$ has poured millions already into this and it fails every time.  You can get cracked versions of Windows (pick a version, any version) just about anywhere in the world.  This antagonistic mentality (reminiscent of the RIAA) just hurts users more and more and more.  Does it hurt the crackers and pirates - noop.  Software piracy has been around for at least twenty-five years and is still going full tilt with no sign of abatement.  M$ is doing themselve and us a disservice by continuing to pour money into a futile effort and punish us (the loyal users) in the exchange.

Robert

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, you blow your whole leg off.

 -- Bjarne Stroustrup

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