>before you cite “Linux”, look at who the top contributors are - all corporations. That is true but no single corporation has control of Linux. Linux (the kern

>before you cite “Linux”, look at who the top contributors are - all corporations. That is true but no single corporation has control of Linux. Linux (the kernel) has managed to harness corporations to fund developers so they can work full time on it without giving said corporations "editorial control" over Linux. Individual corporations that pay Linux developers have some influence over the type of things that are worked on (by paying people that specialise in some parts of the kernel over others) but they don't get to decide what actually goes into the mainline kernel. Unfortunately the same isn't true of most languages where there is often a single corporation behind it.