[Havelock]

Linus Torvalds $50M net worth says otherwise. There are however very few "winners" and a lot of losers.

[npn]

If he sold his OS like other US companies then his networth would be $50B not $50M.

You can argue that Linux can't reach that kind of successful if it is nonfree, but there were a lot of poorly written OS that sold millions.

[1letterunixname]

Bad example. He also was part of a number of startups including Transmeta.