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This all assumes that without Google this would not happen. But I fail to see why is this so. Linux happened without single corporation controlling it.

• ignoramous 5y ago
  > This all assumes that without Google this would not happen. To be fair, I am not the one that's assuming things here. I am speaking of how Google has indeed contributed when they really didn't have to (as pointed out with the example of Amazon). > Linux happened without single corporation controlling it. A consortium of corporations, sure: linaro.org
  • nwallin 5y ago
    What does linaro.org have to do with linux? I've been using linux since a decade before linaro.org was founded, and this is the first I've heard of it. Did you mean the Linux Foundation?
    • ignoramous 5y ago
      linaro.org contributes ARM-related work that directly impacts largest deployment of Linux (Android). And how long before ARM takes over servers as well? I meant to highlight that Linux, not in its entirety but parts of it, is indeed driven by orgs (that you haven't even heard of).
• ineedasername 5y ago
  Linux was helped along massively when IBM embraced it and invested a $billion in it in 2000. RedHat benefited significantly from funding by large corporations in it's early days. Undoubtedly these companies helped shape the Linux ecosystem. A single company doesn't control it, but as big as Google is a single company doesn't control the web either.
  • pjmlp 5y ago
    Not only IBM, also Compaq and the daily hated Oracle were early contributers.