As Google is finding out if you go with Linux you have all that baggage from whacko leftist Richard Stallman and the FSF to deal with. They’re now requesting Google hand over their internal software improvements.
http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/05/23/googlecode/index.php?lsrc=mwrss
Apple would never do something like that.
True, you do. But Google wouldn't be where it is now without Linux.