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The thing is, if we manage to tip the scale enough, the chicken and egg problem should solve itself. We just need to represent a market big enough to make distributing Linux native software profitable.
Microsoft is deeply rooted everywhere and people really dont like to learn how to work in a completely different environment from the one they had been feed since school. Almost every workplace that involves computer practically demands us to use Microsoft and it's products. This is the net that keeps us trapped. I guess Gates mild policy against piracy really paid off.*
If only we could take Microsoft out of schools, that would be a huge milestone.
*this could be a myth at this point, idk.