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Does Linux also happen to control a major piece of hardware pretty much everyone uses, and used it to force BSD to adopt some new driver system they wanted to prioritize, which ended up being completely different by the time the dust had settled, and held back other important advancements in the meantime?

That is, it all depends on the full context. Competition is fine, but not anti-competitive behaviour. I maintain that we have had too much of the latter from Google, and that it is only increasing as folks intentionally look the other way and try to boil arguments away to mere deflections and other apologia.