[wolvoleo]

This is the problem with Linux in general. It's way too much infiltrated by our adversaries from big tech industry.

Look at all the kernel patch submissions. 90% are not users but big tech drones. Look at the Linux foundation board. It's the who's who of big tech.

This is why I moved to the BSDs. Linux started as a grassroots project but turned commercial, the BSDs started commercial but are hardly still used as such and are mostly user driven now (yes there's a few exceptions like netflix, netgate, ix etc but nothing on the scale of huawei, Amazon etc)

[surajrmal]

Linux has been majority developed by large tech companies for the last 20+ years. If not for them, it would not be anywhere close to where it is today. You may not like this fact, but it's not really a new development nor something that can be described as infiltration. At the end of the day, maintaining software without being paid to do so is not generally sustainable.

[account42]

Considering some of the changes to the ecosystem in the last 20 years it's not clear that this has made things better.

[preisschild]

It is very clear that this has made things better

A lot more programs are available for linux, drivers and subsystems have gotten better, more features that benefit everyone (such as eBPF) and more

[password4321]

> This is why I moved to the BSDs. Linux started as a grassroots project but turned commercial

Thanks, this may be the key takeaway from this discussion for me

[axus]

As a complete guess, I would say that 90% of Linux systems are run by "big tech drones". And also by small companies using technology.

Open source operating systems are not a zero sum game. Yes there is a certain gravitational pull from all the work contributed by the big companies. If you aren't contributing "for-hire", then you choose what you want to work on, and what you want to use.

[account42]

Only if you count Android phones as being run by Google ... which is exactly the problem we want to avoid with our PCs.