Listen sir, if it's good, I will gladly pay dearly for it. It is just the fact that the best programmers are on the open-source side, also the youngest programmers, distinguished mainly between the two open-source groups: BSD, GNU GPL.
When you look at the open-source programmers, you have to see a studious "I want to change the world" attitude. These are the dedicated people who dedicate themselves to releasing great software for the benefit of society.
When you have a publicly traded stock company making something, cost is always in mind. Often there is no passion, there is just "I got straight out of college and I know it all".
It's all about the people and what they are dedicated to. I am a BSD programmer and I know this: FreeBSD has the most performance of any operating system I have gotten used to, can't match that efficiency. OpenBSD is the most secure operating system I have gotten used to. NetBSD has more ports for their kernel to run on so many architectures than any other operating system out there.
It's all about passion man, the passion.
On another note, I am referring purely to server-side aspects and trying out new things. There is no possible reason in all of existence why someone would use Linux to play video games. There is no reason for it as Unix always fails under Windows, first games must be released for Linux, a lot more than now to change that. Even then, Linux is too hard to use for the everyday folk and just too complicated to do things.
That's what it's at, Unix for servers, Windows for clients, it will take one mighty distribution with ease of use beyond all to shift this tide and I don't see it happening any time soon, we'll see.