I wouldn't call this a conspiracy, unless I start selling T-shirts. My hypothesis wasn't even that people are trying to make linux worse. Just that it will be.

I wouldn't call this a conspiracy, unless I start selling T-shirts. My hypothesis wasn't even that people are trying to make linux worse. Just that it will be. Intel pushed a half-baked mitigation for meltdown that Linus was real mean about recently. Linus made a remark that stuck out to me.. Something about calling into question the motives of Intel that would even push it. (Conspiracy time) it smelled to me like management pushing for a PR clot before their fix was ready. Working well for your interests doesn't necessarily mean working well for everyone's. Linus's motives are transparent and for the Kernel. Linux ran by a commission representing large companies would definitely behave differently...