- Apple: Markets to the choir; run by a techno ego-maniac control freak who is, nontheless, beholden to Microsoft (Office for the Mac, Internet Explorer) who wouldn't dare challenge the Redmond giant on anything important. Billy keeps Stevies balls conveniently at hand for squeezing.
- Amega: No nothing.
- Sun: No consumer products. No name recognition. No credible ambition outside the corporate realm. No experience whatever in entertainment business.
- Palm: Destined to be a super cell phone. Getting pounded by Microsoft for anyone who wants PC type capabilities. No money. Will not market Be OS because no resources.
- Sony: Only credible challenger to Microsoft in extended game consoles, but insufficient in scope. Microsoft is well on the way to building an integrated environment from bottom (games) to top (control of Internet) with total control of home environment in between (XBox home controller, later this year (PCs too - why do you think XP has UPnP turned on by default, and why do you think it's so hard to turn off?)). Too tightly controlled by foreign corp to get much support.
- IBM: That's spelled "International Business Machines". No presence in home / entertainment market, not planning to get into home / entertainment, not interested in home / entertainment market. Supports Windows on the desktop as a lucrative generator of support revenue. Does not support Linux on the desktop.
- Tivo: "Jose's 3rd Street Tacos" has a better chance of taking on McDonalds in a world wide revenue battle and winning.
Further, AOL will keep the interest of many in the Linux community who are interested in games and entertainment. They will get a lot of free development supporting their platform while the rest of the Linux community concentrates on servers.