Here's another quote where Linux is called Reliable. I guess that matters to a lot of people. (:
[link|http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/ptech/07/18/linux.handhelds.idg/index.html|
Linux lends a hand to Sun engineers]

July 18, 2001 Posted: 8:29 a.m. EDT (1229 GMT)
By John Cox

(IDG) -- Sun is rolling out a critical customer service application on an operating system that's almost completely untried for handheld devices -- Linux.

Why Linux? Sun says the open source operating system has shown itself to be reliable, adept at handling multiple applications and inexpensive. Sun rejected far more prevalent handheld operating systems, such as Windows CE and Palm OS, for a variety of ideological and technical reasons.