If Linus had wanted users to pay him I certainly wouldn't pay a different company for it, if they just copied his code and didn't forward of the money on... I

If Linus had wanted users to pay him I certainly wouldn't pay a different company for it, if they just copied his code and didn't forward of the money on... I do wonder, in a non-free world like that, if we'd have a higher proportion of "tech giants" still in the "making software" space instead of being so advertising-centric with Google, Facebook, etc's, main revenue streams.