Eric Raymond thinks Microsoft is ready to swap out the Windows kernel for Linux

That phrase would've meant entirely different things 20 or 10 years ago. In many ways m$ held the land in crushing subjugation, raping the cattle and eating the serfs until there's little left but scorched earth and crunchy remnants.

Ceding those leftovers to the few remaining holdouts and weird people who like their beef that way is perhaps not the crushing defeat we hoped to see m$ suffer.

However, this will do.