Now I have only been out of public schools for about a decade but I was in school when computers were a novelty and not a normality. In Junior High and High school I creatively reallocated the schools network to my own liking which brought on a &quot;technology policy&quot; so the schools are typically a few years behind the curve as with all IT the limited budget&nbsp; money is better spent elsewhere until something arises where they have to spend money there. The point is through school I saw a progression from no computers in school to a small computer lab for the whole school to at least 2 in every classroom. It wasn&#39;t until late in high school that I saw Microsoft in the schools. For the most part all the computer progression in the schools was from apple.&nbsp; So I would not really give in Microsoft conspiracy. In the words of Linus, &quot;<span class="body">I don&#39;t try to be a threat to Microsoft, mainly
because I don&#39;t really see MS as competition. Especially not
Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different.&quot; <br><br>I think the numbers game is cool and all as the user base grows so does support from hardware vendors but at the same time often the reverse engineers do a better job on the drivers then the OEM.</span><br>
<br><br clear="all">James Finstrom<br>Rhino Equipment Corp.<br><br>