i agree with 99% (see i like percentages to
) of what your saying. how ever if it was open source new and uglyer problems would accure that also means that no operating system would be the same makeing tech support for computer illiterits impossible over the phone and would require a hands on approch, which in the long run will cost you more then paying the $500-$600 for windows Xp which comes with free tech support (even if it takes 1 hour to get through).
prity much having it all open source brings in to play alot more problems that me and you can even imagin.
haveing a uniformity does help alot of issues. yes microsoft is the biggist peice of sh*t ever in the history of the world (yes even bigger then 10 T-rex's could drop in a life time).