Because part of being open is being accessible.<p>&quot;It was on display at the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying beware of the leopard.&quot;<p>Linux is difficult to use for the kind of person who is downloading software from Download.com - &quot;compiling binaries directly from the source&quot; might as well be Klingon to them. Frankly as a geek I&#x27;m much happier with my Mac and Windows machine than I am with Linux. Even now things like the Linux Standard Base not being utterly standard demonstrate that Linux is still aiming for a different market.<p>There is a gulf between &quot;my Mom is running Debian, she thinks it is Windows, hehehe&quot; and &quot;able to manage a Linux box even remotely competently&quot;.