Has the X.org organisation ever thought of promoting X.org for use by companies on thier handheld devices such as phones? X has really missed the boat on this one. Years ago, in their infinite wisdom, X.org developers removed monochrome support and low colour support, things that would have been perfect for many handheld devices such as kindles. There is really no good reason why X cannot be used on handheld devices and it woule encourage more use of a standardized platform like X rather than yet more proprietary systems. Another issue with possible use of X by other companies is the need to provide a device driver facility that supports backwards compatability, that a device driver will continue to work on newer X servers, without being recompiled. That would go for all drivers for all parts of an OS. One thing corporations do not want to do is have to distribute 40 different versions of a device driver and end up with a huge mess where device drivers packaged with older devices no longer work. In relation to Linux and X, the only way to get these systems to be useable for most people is to have hardware companies provide drivers for it, since they can do all of the testing to make sure the driver works well with the hardware. This is the only way to get timely hardware support. Average people dont want to use Linux because of how shoddy the hardware support is. If its anything slightly unusual, it wont work. Some corporations may want to distribute binary drivers, thats just a necessary evil to help get an open source OS more widely used, and as well, eventually open source replacements would still get developed anyway. In fact binary drivers from companies would make Linux more useable to more people, so we would see in increase in user use of Linux, and more opportunities for open source companies to be able to fund open source driver development. Ive been watching Linux for over 10 years and I have seen virtually no progress on the desktop. The big reason it still is not useable is the hardware problems. And the attitude of the Linux community as a whole is the cause of that, the reason why so few people use Linux today, I have to recommend people who want to use Linux to not use it and stay with Windows, because I know what a hassle it is, it really is still hard thing to use because it does not work right with so much hardware out there. And thats due to the attitude of Linux developers who have a knee jerk reaction against 3rd party drivers, when 3rd party drivers could make Linux useable to far more people and actually increase potential to fund Linux development. Both Linux kernel itself and X.org, if they were really serious about making Linux practical to common users, would make it easier for third party drivers to be developed, including better documentation of the APIs so a company does not need to spend a year trying to understand it.