The reason Linux is being adopted by corporations is because it's Unix. The reason why there are so many Linux developers is because it's Unix. If you take Unix away from Linux you end up with something like Windows - that's where DOS came from, btw, a subset of Unix. You don't like permissions? Run as root! You don't want to know about Unix intricacies? You don't have to: just install RPMs and you're game. In over 20 years of experience, if I learned something it was this: every time they try to make something easy by hiding the complexity they end up with something that fails more and is harder to fix.

just my 0.02.