This all assumes that without Google this would not happen. But I fail to see why is this so. Linux happened without single corporation controlling it.
Linux was helped along massively when IBM embraced it and invested a $billion in it in 2000.
RedHat benefited significantly from funding by large corporations in it's early days.
Undoubtedly these companies helped shape the Linux ecosystem. A single company doesn't control it, but as big as Google is a single company doesn't control the web either.
> This all assumes that without Google this would not happen.
To be fair, I am not the one that's assuming things here. I am speaking of how Google has indeed contributed when they really didn't have to (as pointed out with the example of Amazon).
> Linux happened without single corporation controlling it.
What does linaro.org have to do with linux? I've been using linux since a decade before linaro.org was founded, and this is the first I've heard of it. Did you mean the Linux Foundation?
linaro.org contributes ARM-related work that directly impacts largest deployment of Linux (Android). And how long before ARM takes over servers as well?
I meant to highlight that Linux, not in its entirety but parts of it, is indeed driven by orgs (that you haven't even heard of).
RedHat benefited significantly from funding by large corporations in it's early days.
Undoubtedly these companies helped shape the Linux ecosystem. A single company doesn't control it, but as big as Google is a single company doesn't control the web either.