From: http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,62016,00.html

Snazzy desktops are everywhere at this week's LinuxWorld. But as developers strive for a user-friendly interface, many roll out products that bear a striking resemblance to Microsoft software. Michelle Delio reports from New York.

What Microsoft has is Program Managers, QA, and testers.  And World Class software development.  As of now, what Linux does is copy.  Linux can’t out innovate Microsoft.  It can copy.  And if it copies and destroys the innovator, what then?  What’s the reward?