> Plus, if what China is up to is any barometer, we could all be using Linux in a few years.

nah. The only people that care are techies that want something new/different to play with or the people who want to get away from MS Windows or the ones that have had Linux installed in their behalf. The rest don't care enough about the RMS's free software philosophy to bother with "Linux's shortcomings". "Linux's shortcomings" has nothing to do with the GNU/Linux operating system but can be attributed to stupid laws that prevent users from sharing and writing secure software and hardware and software vendors that rely on tactics to ensure a monopoly on their products.