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Pretty bad take and calling it “a collection of drivers, some VMM, and some syscalls” is a bit reductive.

Linux kernel is built and maintained across a variety of people. To my knowledge, nobody is directly paid by Linux foundation yet these people come together to slowly improve the kernel everybody uses either directly or indirectly. It’s also a demonstration of the greatness that humans can achieve if we work together to solve a problem(s) outside of the typical “capitalistic” motivations (ie, money)



> To my knowledge, nobody is directly paid by Linux foundation

I think Linus is




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