hmm... food for thought..
You know... if Windows and Mac would merge, like Bill tried to do with Steve in the beginning, we wouldn't even have Linux.. how about those apples.. and NOW, I believe that sometime in the future, Mac and Windows will merge and corner the market on End-Users, and complete command line based NIX systems will still be the IT Guru's baby. The point is, that what makes the money is the winner. And right now it is Mac and Windows. The last attempt I saw of a store bought Linux based system was Lindows, until they got sued. You want to debate Windows versus Mac versus Linux versus Unix.. it is not a debate, that is like trying to debate Possums to Dump-trucks. You can't, that's the point, the debate is opinionated. Remove the opionions and you have facts. command based system runn faster then gui based systems.. fact. Speed is also relative to the hardware. I have Windows 95 on a dual AMD 64, and that will BLOW your Mac away... well duh. I can run the entire OS in RAM and applications.
People need to debate the facts and not opionins.. you are correct, that the consumers demand dictates the market. Period
