From OSNews.com, The Fast Food Syndrome

We need to understand that there are millions and millions of PCs out there which could (and should) be running Linux, but can't because of the obscene memory requirements. We need to admit that many home users are being turned away because it offers no peformance boost over XP and its apps, and in most cases it's even worse.

We're digging a big hole here -- a hole from which there may be no easy escape. Linux needs as many tangible benefits over Windows as possible, and we're losing them.

From Wired.com, Potty-Mouthed Programmers

Linux, which is written mostly in the programming language C, lets coders add comments to explain their work. Those comments, it turns out, are a wonderland of foulmouthed criticism. Like this little gem: "These chips are basically fucked by design."

If the locker-room talk worries the suits trying to make money off Linux, Linus Torvalds, the father of the OS, doesn't give a damn. "Profanity and bad taste can be fine," he wrote to developers in a 1999 email. The time to worry, he said, is "when the profanities start to occupy a noticeable amount of kernel space." See? Dad said it's OK.