[lifeguard]

Linus is (was?) one of my living heroes. But he controls the Linux kernel.

FTA:

"It's worth noting that the maintainer of record (me) for the Linux RNG quit the project about two years ago precisely because Linus decided to include a patch from Intel to allow their unauditable RdRand to bypass the entropy pool over my strenuous objections. " -- Eugen* Leitl

Linus has close ties to Intel and has for a long time.

[zdw]

Yeah, like when he worked for Transmeta, and that stint in the mid 200x's where a PowerPC64 was his main machine?

He may have a lot of Intel connections, but he doesn't seem to be committed to any specific vendor.

[jlgaddis]

JFTR, that quote is from Matt Mackall.

(OT: Eugen Leitl simply forwards posts from one mailing list to another, almost always without any reason for doing so, commentary, explanation, "value add", etc. He's in my kill file for that reason.)