It's quite the opposite actually, a large company usually expected others to bend to its will and is not that interested in hearing opposed views and change the

It's quite the opposite actually, a large company usually expected others to bend to its will and is not that interested in hearing opposed views and change their approach and that's what makes getting coffee into the kernel harder. I've got code in the kernel and it wasn't easy but that code lives on well beyond my contribution so it has to be in a design and implementation that can and will be maintained by others.