Linux has never purged any of those. It is more like it got "conquered" by money and resources allocating developer time. For that matter, so will any truly important and developed FOSS.
Not sure what do you expect, Mozilla model with an NGO, who can still be pushed by competition and wealth into irrelevancy?
Ask about RedHat and their push for dominance in both init system, package management, GUI and audio server, conquering even Debian and Arch in the end, making Gentoo less relevant, making BSD compatibility hard.
Countered only somewhat by Android and its practices, Google's money and software market.
Theo Tso fought against the backdooring of /dev/random by the NSA. That this backdooring was attempted was confirmed by Snowden leaks.
New York times:
"By this year, the Sigint Enabling Project had found ways inside some of the encryption chips that scramble information for businesses and governments, either by working with chipmakers to insert back doors or by exploiting security flaws, according to the documents."
Later when the code of conduct was added to the Linux project, Theo Tso was attacked with bullshit accusations on the first day...
Not that I disagree with your point, but the Snowden leaks only confirmed that the NSA does backdooring in general, not that the Intel rdrand instruction in particular was backdoored.
Not sure what do you expect, Mozilla model with an NGO, who can still be pushed by competition and wealth into irrelevancy?
Ask about RedHat and their push for dominance in both init system, package management, GUI and audio server, conquering even Debian and Arch in the end, making Gentoo less relevant, making BSD compatibility hard. Countered only somewhat by Android and its practices, Google's money and software market.