See my earlier posting about being wedded to specific apps. There's nothing wrong with wanting to use a specific application instead of a functional equivalent, but one should weigh the pros and cons--cost, exposure to malware, freedom to tinker with the code, etc. On my balance scale, Windows loses. Big time. The same is true for many other people. YMMV.



I don't see it that way, nor do millions of other Linux users.



Nope. It's an attempt to extract a never ending revenue stream from Windows users.