We got that, it's been said dozens or times. The point is to possibly influence future direction. If no one complains or requests it the status quo will prevail. As much as the linux "whiners" keep complaining there is no linux boxes, why do people care to answer the same question over and over? Is there some fetish from telling people no or nannny poo poo no client for you? No one says you shouldn't post your support for this. But those who continue to think "cross platform" translates to "all platform" or those who denigrate EN and/or the devs will most likeley get replies in kind. (Not sure what a "fetish from telling people no" means though...) Cross Platform doesn't need to translate into All Platforms, but we aren't talking about something like Palm. Let's be honest, to compare the 2 is obnoxious and condescending. To sit in a topic and keep saying EN isn't going to build a linux client every 2 posts or so is nothing more than some type of chest pumping or competition where you are trying to rub it in the face that people are wrong. IMO the more people who ask for the client the better, my hope is that the business development and planning teams start to see value in developing for Linux. The cloud is essentially built on linux and as the ranks of programmers grows linux will be used more on the desktop. Maybe not by mainstream users but by a large number more developers, cloud admins and the like.