It's not about ego. Really. If it was ego, I'd be telling you about my awesome... oh, never mind.
No one cares what operating system you run as long as it stays up.
Well, lets just say, if your VCR is still blinking 12:00, you dont want Linux.
The world is beating a path to our door
It used to be that, when something strange happened, we'd hear on the news "Police believe this is the act of an isolated nut." On the internet there are no isolated nuts; whatever kind of nut you are, you can find fifty nuts in the world exactly like you.
The strategic marketing paradigm of Open Source is a massively-parallel drunkard's walk filtered by a Darwinistic process.