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Good insight into the evil empire. I agree that anyone partnering with MSFT is out of their mind, but I don't think this applies much to Linux. No one distro of Linux could do anything to the entire Linux community. It is an open source OS and no single entity has total ownership, so MSFT will never be able to pull the shenanigans they have pulled on other companies in the past. As to Chris's comments...Apple has indeed done some questionable things in it's chase for world dominance. However, Apple's market share is far from making it a monopoly. Konfabulator has a great product, but Apple hardly stole their technology. Apple had clearly been working on a Konfabulator style application layer within it's OS X for quite some time. Do you think it might be coincidence that Konfabulator's developer worked at Apple in the UI department for some time? Rather than re-hash old news, you can get the real scoop on that here: http://daringfireball.net/2004/06/dashboard_vs_konfabulator I do hope that MSFT buys Konfabulator, it would be good (financially speaking) for the guys who made it. Although we all know that Konfabulator would cease to exist in its current form and we can all forget about future releases on the Mac. If a developer wants to sell their sould to the devil, that is their right. Hopefully they would sell off Konfab and come right back to the Mac and develop some more cool apps. Many of us helped those guys by buying their software and getting them to where they are today. Mac users are loyal and a tight-knit community. I don't think Windows developers will ever experience that level of community in anything they do.