[bigdcaldavis]

I figure one of the main reasons Linux isn't mainstream is because of all of the many Linux distributions in existence. I think that eventually one of the commercial Linux distro companies will attempt to buy the Linux source code from Torvalds and the Debian source code and then claim exclusive ownership of Debian and Linux (including past versions).

This is my personal opinion. If I had to choose between Xandros and Linspire to be the only Linux distro in town, I would choose Xandros in a heartbeat...my biggest fear is that if Xandros does indeed become the only Linux distro around, we'll start seeing security flaws in Xandros that will make it easy for hackers to compromise your Xandros systems. (I've always suspected that the government uses Microsoft Windows' security holes to spy on Windows users and view the contents of their hard drives.)

[ShadowAce]

I think that eventually one of the commercial Linux distro companies will attempt to buy the Linux source code from Torvalds and the Debian source code and then claim exclusive ownership of Debian and Linux (including past versions).

This has already been attempted and failed. Linus actually "owns" very little of the code in Linux. There are just too many owners of code within the kernel to ever make that scenario possible.