Desktop 'penetration' misnomer

The Doc Searls page : Sunday, August 11, 2002
Doc has an excellent point on GNU/Linux and *nix desktop debates:
Both GNU/Linux and BSD are varieties of UNIX. It's coming to the point where technical computing folks are as familiar with UNIX OSes as carpenters are with wood. Given the presence of UNIX under the OS X desktop, it won't be long before lots of users learn to run a few simple terminal commands that are about a hard as learning to read the oil level on a dipstick.
It's a red herring, this stuff about whose desktop is biggest. It's about dicks, frankly. Look at Microsoft! Whoa! Nobody else's dick is that big! Not even close! That's your default mainstream desktop story.