> When Mao said he wanted to see "a hundred flowers bloom," he wasn't serious.
Heh, my thought exactly. I'm not trying to be cynical, I just know a bit about Chinese history :) A better reference would be to the age of Hundred Schools of Thought:
And if we really want to be cynical, also including the fact, that it was a "period was fraught with chaos and bloody battles" ;) Let's just hope we won't see a Linux desktop's equivalent of Qin Shi Huang.