Summary: Norway's adoption of GNU/Linux was noted here last year; it has since then increased a lot; if one counts mobile devices as well, not to mention ChromeOS, it's looking far worse for Microsoft and good for "Linux" as even in rich countries we see that it's not about price but about control/freedom
Free software "absolutism" is not a radical stance, more so if the only "radical" belief the user possesses is that he or she must be in control of his or her software, and by extension his or her computer