My observations to date: the open source community is astounding in its productivity, and if they could spend less time implementing the same feature over and over again and more time focusing on Apple-quality design and simplicity, the vast majority of users shouldn't really have to upgrade to whatever slow, bloated, internally inconsistent OS Microsoft ships next.
Ubuntu really does seem a major release or two (ok, maybe 3) away from being consumable by most people who are sick of forking over $150 to Microsoft every 2 years for not all that much to show for it. And with so much happening on the Web these days, who cares about what your desktop is doing? Imagine a world in which iPhoto and iTunes were in the cloud -- do we really need another forklift upgrade of desktop OSes which breaks all your applications?
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