No flames comming here, but show me one other OS that can run on a furby, dvr, firewall, as400, 64way Power 5, mainframe.

Even on an phone, or internet tablet.

Without opensource that would never happen. Open source has delivered huge contributions to the WORLD. The problem is most of the cool stuff of which you speak is done by people who want it to work for them, then they share, projects get started and merge, and grow.