I read these threads and smile inwardly. It makes me laugh that people can get so emotional over an operating system. Lets face it; Linux will NEVER be the operating system for the masses as long as it is run through terminal commands. It's nice, for those of use tech-savvy enough to be able to operate within that environment, but you put my better half in from of a terminal and she would melt into a gelatinous lump of I-haven't-got-the-faintest-idea-what-to-do-with-this. Turn Linux into an open-source GUI based OS where you can do whatever you want WITHOUT having to crack open a terminal and there's potential for it to become the global OS of choice. Windows, on the other hand, is an intuitive, global, GUI based OS that everyone knows a modicum about. It makes sense, sound business sense, albeit an offence to Linux fans, that Nokia and MS partner to deliver consumer friendly GUI based smartphone(s). Sorry to rock the boat, but we all knew this was gonna happen eventually. I mean, come on. Be real.