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Linux isn't what it was - it's contributed to via a lot of companies with commercial interests. The open source developers who started doing it all for love are often doing it for money now. Certain features are desired, there's a way to do it, they do it.

The actual "customers" of linux now - the ones providing the money that employs people - aren't Linux enthusiasts but big companies. So it's absolutely obvious that their needs are "what matter".

It's ok. The rest of us can fork and "be irrelevant" in the same way Linux was irrelevant before it became popular.