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Be merciful http://treefunk.net/forum/ Apache/PHP Works great for the 20-30 visitors a day I get. .000001% of slashdotters will take it and my dsl line down faster than I can say UNCLE, now get off me already. :)

Actually I would think Linux has the largest number of small servers out there. I'm sure there are many people in my situation who have taken a 50 dollar old AMD box, thrown Ubuntu/LAMP on it and they are serving up web pages for their small business or personal blog. Smallest potatoes? Sure, times a million then it is worth talking about and doesn't show up in sales figures as we are talking about free downloads.

BTW my server is: http://treefunk.net/forum

I have stood up to Bush for years now, written to my representatives, gone on non violent anti-war protest marches, done ground support for the Redwoods in Humboldt county California, was pepper sprayed at Bush's 2004 inauguration, have written political articles at my blog http://treefunk.net/forum , etc. Before that I stood up to Clinton for his murderous sanctions against Iraq, his incredibly destructive non U.N. approved war against Serbia, his salvage logging plan for the Pacific Northwest, etc. Before that I stood to Bush I against HIS war against Iraq, etc. My point is when you stand up to the bullies and it has little or no effect, you do start wonder if you are wasting the limited amount of time you have an earth and withdrawal from society does start to seem like reasonable response to try to milk a little joy out of the overall terrible condition U.S. society has fallen into. YMMV. I'm not there quite yet, and still have some fight left in me, but 20 years of kicking against the pricks Dem. and Rep. does get old after a while. And I have NO interest in, "if you can't beat them, join them."

Obviously kowtowing to lawyers is more important to you than how the operating system actually performs. It is just this sort of obsequious bowing to lawyers that is one of the biggest problems in the world today. Without i.p. lawyers throwing up roadblocks many more "tenacious hobbyists" would be producing free software for all of us to enjoy. Do gcc, firefox, gnome, ring a bell? It seems you are secretly sympathetic to the SCO lawyers as they give Solaris an ARTIFICIAL leg up on "tenacious hobbyists" such as RMS, who gave us the free software concept in the first place, and the tool (gcc) to compile that free software.

Note I do actually believe that is a place in the world for many different sorts of software licenses, for example I'm running OS X on the desktop and Ubuntu/Apache for my web server for http://treefunk.net/forum

What I object to is your sly underhanded dissing of React OS, Linux, and "tenacious hobbyists" not on the basis on technical merit, but on the basis of how well they can fend off lawyers. Surely we can do better than to fall back on arbitrary authority when technical performance is a better reason to accept or reject an operating system?