Linus Torvalds calls RISC-V code from Google engineer 'garbage' and says it 'makes the world actively a worse place to live' — Linux honcho puts dev on notice for late submissions, too
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Pull request got rejected for Linux 6.17. And as a late submission, it already lit Torvald’s fuse.
  • FizzyOrange@programming.dev
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    2 days ago

    Maybe, but probably not.

    Why not?

    As much as it sucks to admit, the Linux kernel would not be where it is today without the additional expertise and man-hours donated by companies. That never would have happened if it weren’t open-source, collaborative, and free for commercial use.

    It feels like you’re ignoring network effects here. If Linux didn’t exist then something else (e.g. FreeBSD) would be much more popular and would be targeted by companies instead.