[thfuran]

He could not have made Linux into what it is today without additional contributors, and many of those contributors have been in the employ of companies that use Linux.

[meiraleal]

Yeah so he helped create a system where contribution beats direct monetary benefit. Microsoft tried hard with hundreds of billions to prevent Linux success, the fact that it spends so much money on it nowadays proves that no amount of money could have stopped Linux success.

[thfuran]

You think the companies that are paying employees to contribute are doing so out of sheer benevolence and not because they derive monetary benefit?

[meiraleal]

No benevolence at all, pretty much the opposite. That's my point since the beginning.