Freedom is the key to my love of Linux. I can tweak, tune, change, manipulate to my heart's content and if anything worthwhile comes of it, maybe even give my changes back to the community.
I have helped a tiny bit by supplying information about a Sanyo 3 CD changer that got incorporated into a driver in the kernel. I have been immortalized in the Linux source code with a thank you from one of the driver's maintainers. Yippee!
World Domination is just around the corner.
Debian is the one true distribution.