Comment by wolvoleo
1 month ago
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)
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.
Considering some of the changes to the ecosystem in the last 20 years it's not clear that this has made things better.
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
> 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
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.
Only if you count Android phones as being run by Google ... which is exactly the problem we want to avoid with our PCs.