fundamental differences

TechRepublic: "#2: Licensing freedom vs. licensing restrictions...with the GPL, you can download a single copy of a Linux distribution (or application) and install it on as many machines as you like.

With the Microsoft license, you can do none of the above."

I have been around the Linux community for more than 10 years now. From the very beginning, I have known that there are basic differences between Linux and Windows that will always set them apart.

This is not, in the least, to say one is better than the other. It’s just to say that they are fundamentally different.