I accidentally clicked the anonymous coward link on that. I am actually serious about this idea, though.

Exactly. And the best part is, Linux doesn't _have_ to grow at all. 'Linux' is not a company, it doesn't have shareholders or investors -- it's just a tool, code written for a purpose. Economists (or at least market analysts and the business writers who need to fill pages every day) still have not figured out that their old models don't apply to FOSS products.

And that's the problem -- people think a product or service has to make tons of $$ to be successful. Something like Ubuntu subverts our capitalist assumptions, because it actually gets cheaper the better it gets, and the more people who use it. Supply and demand work differently.