Linux: The new challenge to Microsoft

“As the government’s antitrust lawsuit winds down, Microsoft’s next battle may be a knock-down, drag-out fight against Linux. Like Microsoft’s Windows, Linux is a computer operating system, but written and updated by volunteer programmers in a communitarian spirit, and available for free. If Linux spreads, Microsoft could see the first real challenge to its dominance of the operating-system software market. For consumers, that would be good news.”