Re: Linux?s Remarkable Journey From One Dev's Hobby To 40 Million Lines Of Code - And Counting

On 7/2/25 18:36, John McCue wrote:

because "Linus
had no pride. He threw open the door to everybody, and anybody
who could send him a patch could participate.

Linus has as much pride as anyone on the face of the planet.
Remember he remains in a position to protect his work and the
idea of Free Open Source Software. He is wise to do so as
he resists the foolish idea of Poettering embodied in the systemd
trojan and other attempts to inject the trappings of a corporate
system into the kernel.
Of course corporate systems are happier with a systemd
as it may make maintenance easier for fewer corporate
IP members, the guys in charge of updates and upgrades
that users and developers do on their own.  Some people
have a model of computer use that is like a toaster and
so they skip leaning how to use their systems until
a problem arises.

bliss -hates the toaster approach as it leads people back to sheeple status