At this moment in time there seems to be a war going on. On one side there is the proprietary systems, iconified by windows. On the other side there is the open source systems, iconified by Linux. There is also a third group, the fence sitters, who alternate between the two camps. These are neither willing or able to choose one side and stick with it.

Now I have an image in my mind of two different streams of gas or liquid. These two streams are moving in different directions and at different speeds. For visualisation they can be different colours too. In the middle of each stream everything is calm. There is no impediment to the flow and everything moves in a similar manner (mostly .

If we now imagine those two streams being brought next to each other and their boundaries connecting. What you will see is lots of eddies, waves and in general, turbulence. This is how I see the interaction between the windows and Linux camps.

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