in a capitalist system, we are mostly going to do things the capitalist way even though most of the desktop ecosystem we actually use is made by volunteers and smaller companies. explains a lot of the funding issues we have getting it off the ground for general desktop use, while servers corporations use are well funded and developed.

your worry about linus’ death comes directly from capitalism, you just know investors will pick it apart and destroy it for money if they somehow get their grubby hands on it.