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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




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