At 04:25 PM 6/26/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Funny how the author talked to no one from GNU\Linux community, but did
>talk to a M$ Windows product manager.

Read the entire article and you will find...

"Linux has made great strides," said Marty
Wesley, product manager at Red Hat
(www.redhat.com), one of the largest sellers
of Linux-based software and services. "It's a
much more graphic environment than it used
to be. You don't have to worry so much
about typing in line commands like you used
to."

And...

Often Linux distributions are free
for the downloading off the Internet or
typically cost less than $30.

However, the author obviously does not understand open source as can be
seen here where he infers a cost is sometime needed to download the code...

It was created using what's known as "open
source" code, meaning anyone can
download it off the Internet, OFTEN FOR FREE,
experiment with it and customize it if they're
technically capable. They can also post
those modified versions back online for
anyone else to use.
(emphasis added)

Not a BAD article, just very shallow.

Alan