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Go to any consumer electronics store and try to buy a computer not running any code from one of these two companies.

Yes, if you're a sysadmin, getting naked iron is no problem. But you're gonna have code from these running on your network, as it stands today.

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You said infrastructure. Not consumer gear.

How many sysadmins are running down to Best Buy to purchase their server farms? I doubt very many. A healthy percentage of companies have their infrastructure based on Linux.

Exactly. XBox's and iPhones are not the "world's infrastructure". The real infrastructure of the world runs on big iron mainframes, SCADA systems and whatever Cisco puts on their hardware.

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