"Pete C." writes:

It seems every year or so I venture into the Linux world to investigate
something, but so far I just haven't found any attraction. The bulk of
the Linux hype I hear boils down to "It's free" and "It's not Microsoft"
and neither of those hold any particular appeal to me. I'm certainly not
a big Windoze fan, but I find it does everything I need it to do, at a
modest price, I can find the applications I need for it, and it's
reliable (at least all of my Windoze installations are).

Windows 7 will have 6 different editions. The Starter Edition, for
those $400 notebooks, will be limited to three applications at one
time.
Considering that 25% of the computers being sold are notebooks,
That sucks royally, IMHO.

In this case, it not "free as in beer", but "Free as in Speech"
in that Linux does not purposely cripple your computer.