Why Linux? (was: Red Hat's Bluecurve)

[Chris]

> Most people purchase a computer and get MS because that's what they
> use at work or at school.  If Linux can penetrate the corporate
> environment and people get used to that at work or school, they'll start
> getting it at home as well.
>

After all, isn't that how Unix originally became so ubiquitous,   it was given
away to a lot of colleges etc???