content: To begin with Linux is not a company, its a community, its an opportunity, and the market should decide where that community goes in a true open market.  That's how capitalism works. Competition will find winners and losers. Money and minds will flow towards winners and away from losers.  The only problem we have is that Microsoft has from day one been nothing short of a criminal organization and controlled the market with an iron fist.  Intellectual theft and legal manipulation of the market is their only business model.    You have lots of questions that sound like talking points from a Microsoft marketing pamphlet.  I'm probably old enough to at least be your father, so I have experience under my belt, I've worked at some of the top Universities and largest corporations in this country and there is nothing they need that cannot be served by the Linux community, even in its current state which has still not even come close to its potential.  What large organizations do have is MONEY and ignorant lazy employees that will sign contracts with Microsoft that imbed Microsoft like a tapeworm. Microsoft rewards those people as it grows and it takes over and before long Microsoft is running the IT department, not the company. I've seen it again and again. Microsoft is closer to a mafia than a tech company, it has an army of lawyers and as the DOJ figured out long ago..."Embrace, extend, and extinguish" (EEE), also known as "embrace, extend, and exterminate", is a phrase that the U.S. Department of Justice found was used internally by Microsoft.    If you support that, then its on you, we all have life choices, but there are consequences.  I won't do it and fight with all my ability to avoid their products, even when sometimes I have to find a work around, but there is always a way.    As an aside you do know all the voting machine companies include Microsoft's ElectionGuard voting software in their machines, right?  Just keep that in the back of your mind as this 2020 election  fiasco unfolds in the courts, both sides use it to buy elections.  And for the bonus round, do you really think Bill Gates #1 mission in life is to vaccinate the world because he cares so much for us? Really? Look into his family history, the man is pure evil, wake up and start trying to get him out of your lives.