If someone wants to set up a foundation and fund me to write all the software ideas I have stuffed up in my head, feel free to contact me. If not, you'll have to wait another 20 years - probably. I kind of find that one hard to see anyone measuring successfully - the invoices I see from Dell never have the price for Windows Server listed as a separate item. Does that mean this revenue is counting OEM licenses of Windows Server too? On a smaller server that can be more than the price of the hardware. Think of the furniture! All those kludged spice racks and poorly assembled flat pack furniture assembled by delusional dilettantes detracting from the value of artisan crafted heirlooms! How on earth will we be able to pick out the quality articles? A few more lumps of confusion in the article The Linux kernel has forked: Android. Android had design features that worked well on a mobile phone, but were not appropriate to a cluster. Google considered merging back with Linus's Linux to be sufficiently valuable that they have been recoding bits of Android to scale better. Some of the new code has been merged. Linux and Android are getting closer. Forks are good in free software. If you are Microsoft, you have a few programmers. To achieve anything, you must pick a direction and herd your programmers that way. If you picked the right direction, all well and good. Celebrate and have a