Yes, companies. A huge number of them. I'd argue that makes Linux and BSD quite successful/popular systems. My point was not that so much that it's a company, b

Yes, companies. A huge number of them. I'd argue that makes Linux and BSD quite successful/popular systems. My point was not that so much that it's a company, but that it's one company. I think measuring popularity by how many people chose it makes sense. Though popularity is a very weird measure. You have to also consider in what space it's popular. Linux, and especially BSDs, are unpopular in the consumer space, because not a lot of people chose it (even though a lot of people use it - consider IOS, Android, macOS, ChromeOS, PlayStation, et cetera). In contrast, Windows is rather unpopular in the server space, most choose Linux or some BSD.