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by 013a 2468 days ago
Linux powers most of the web servers on the internet. The Linux Foundation is not worth billions of dollars.

All of those servers run on Intel chips. Maybe some AMD. Even combined, companies like Google and Amazon, who would be nothing without those chips, are worth more than the companies that make their chips.

And electricity! Our electric companies aren't worth a penny compared to these huge tech companies. That's strange. They wouldn't even be able to see, let alone run their computers, without the electric company.

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The Linux Foundation is not worth billions of dollars

IBM paid billions of dollars for Red Hat.

And most of the webservers on the Internet does not run Redhat.