[linux-elitists] How to kill Linux

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

http://www.pcmag.com/print_article2/0,2533,a=146348,00.asp

(Sorry guys, it seems they force you to the non-print version if you don't 
have the right referrer, but it's only two pages so it's not that bad.)

While I don't think this will kill Linux in any way shape or form, I thought 
the discussion it might generate here would be interesting.  With the 
exception of some really cheap and/or really esoteric hardware, I find 
hardware support on Linux adequate, if not plain old acceptable.

-A.

From the article:

"The idea here would be to cut the driver layer out of Windows and attach it 
to Linux directly. This would become MS-Linux. If Microsoft actually produced 
an MS-Linux that was the standard Linux attached to the driver layer of 
Windows, giving users full Plug and Play (PnP) support of all their 
peripherals, nobody would buy any other Linux on the market.

...

That means tearing away the entire top of Linux from the driver layer-and that 
would be MS-Linux. Users who needed to add the driver layers would be offered 
the standard Linux driver package, which would be attached with a utility 
program. The utility would sew the drivers back into Linux, resulting in an 
OS that would be more or less the same as everyone else's."