Linux Adoption

Linux is great I use it everyday for pretty much everything. The one issue that I can see that keeps it from taking over is people don't realize how it can be used. I priced out MS WindowsXP and MS Office. To get almost what you get with standard fedora and it costs nearly $800. I don't understand why people waste their money. If these people start using Linux that they can buy or download for a fraction of the price or most times free, then the applications they like to use will show up in full force. Just look at RealPlayer and other things like that. The applications that don't move over soon will be replaced by OSS versions of what they try to sell.