> Would Linux have ever gotten anywhere if IBM hadn't been the company it was and is?

Well, the reason that IBM jumped on the Linux bandwagon was because Linux was already going somewhere. If having a good Unix clone for free was the only consideration, I'd think that one of the BSD family would have been picked on [narrowly] technical and licensing grounds.

It's been so long since I've used an IBM PC keyboard that I don't even remember the keys on it (I've got a stack of about 40 IBM AT keyboards at home, and, maybe, one PC keyboard, and that only because I've got a couple of old 5150 motherboards floating around.