Good idea Iffy. The natural extension is a public contest -- a "Battle of the Operating Systems". You get a credible and impartial organization to oversee the contest. A magnanimous gesture I think the Linux community should make is to allow Microsoft to choose the hardware setup. Make it that much harder for them to blink.
Let them put up their best against the Linux best and settle this thing once and for all.
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Good idea Iffy. The natural extension is a public contest -- a "Battle of the Operating Systems". You get a credible and impartial organization to oversee the contest. A magnanimous gesture I think the Linux community should make is to allow Microsoft to choose the hardware setup. Make it that much harder for them to blink.
Let them put up their best against the Linux best and settle this thing once and for all.