This is a very interesting idea that is worthy of further research.

Edit 1: Multi signature transactions and sidechains are already identified in the Monero Design and Development goals http://https://getmonero.org/design-goals/

Edit 2: If this were to be implemented in Monero it would be in addition to and not in lieu of RingCT since RingCT will be mandatory for Monero transactions. The base coin, Monero, would be using RingCT.

Edit 3: By the way this concept has already been proposed by Shen Noether (with zk-snarks implemented on top of RingCT) and I have had some prior discussion on the subject with him. It should be considered at this point the subject of research, in particular with respect to my edit 2 point above, namely implementing zk-snarks on top of RingCT. RingCT is a must here since it would be needed for multi signature transactions in Monero.

The evidence is otherwise. Ethereum to put it mildly is a sitting duck for FinCEN. Search for "FinCEN Ripple". Apple is fast loosing market share to the Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) Android, apart from the fact that both Mac OS X and iOS contain large amounts of FLOSS. RedHat is as FLOSS as many GNU/LInux distros including Ubuntu, Mint, CentOS etc. Microsoft has lost or is loosing virtually every market from Supercomputers to Mobile to FLOSS. Even on the desktop it is slowly loosing ground. What many forget about FLOSS, is that FLOSS is a multi billion dollar business.

Edit: Proprietary Unix has basically lost the server market to GNU/Linux (including RedHat) over a decade ago.

Why don't you try using a virtual machine to run linux and monero?

Pretty sure there are solutions out there to do this. Best of both worlds.

MAAM #6 Monero Ask Anything Monday:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/49c530/maam_6_monero_ask_anything_monday/

This pullback is a good opportunity to restock.

Where's the new support of monero since its pullback?

IF 250k holds then here (obviously), but if that breaks I think our next support area is between 230k-219k range.

We're not going to see 100k again.

This is just a correction, we will see 400k within 2weeks