>>17
1) Only in the US. And even then, no one to my knowledge has gotten in trouble for possessing the software, only distributing it *with* a distro CD. Installing the distro and getting it from their package manager? No problem.
2) .doc is supported pretty well in OpenOffice and Abiword, and in the last few days, Microsoft has made it's new document formats an industry standard, meaning they've published full documentation and anyone will be able to support it (after reading over 6000 pages). WMV9 has been fully, natively supported by FFMpeg for about 4 months (without the need for win32codecs). Macromedia Director works in Wine, except for a specific saving error.
3) All my games run no problem in Wine/Cedega (including some newer titles). The older ones don't even work in XP anymore (require 9X or 2K). PS works in Wine (with a certain amount of work still), but Cubase does not. :(
4) This will change in time. Even nVidia is considering joining Intel and open sourcing their drivers, but they're taking their sweet time.
5) ...is easy enough to add to them or compile by hand. Shit, even my father figured out how to do a simple ./configure, make, make install.
>>19
Yeah, they did, five years ago. Now Linux is pwning FreeBSD. OpenBSD is still considered the king of security, though.