da_cow (she/her)

Some people in this comment section would probably profit from touching some grass and then looking up who actually contributes to the kernel and how the GPL license works.

Did you knew that in 2025 84% of contributions to the kernel were authored by companies? That is not “everyone has contributed something”

https://commandlinux.com/statistics/linux-kernel-contributors-lines-of-code-statistics/

Did you know that most of the contributions made to the Linux kernel come from people who are being paid to do so?

Corporate developers authored 84.3% of kernel commits in 2025, with contributions distributed across more than 1,780 organizations. Intel maintained its position as the top contributor by changesets, delivering nearly double the volume of second-place Google.

Google demonstrated extensive sign-off activity, accounting for approximately 12.5% of patches. Meta functions as a significant maintainer hub, with 12.5% of patches passing through Meta-affiliated reviewers.

https://commandlinux.com/statistics/linux-kernel-contributors-lines-of-code-statistics/

Yes, meta is a evil ass company but the fearmongering, that they will take over Linux is just that. Fearmongering. The Linux foundation has been put in charge of the kernel to prevent takeover of the project by corporate members and it has been like that for years.

I’m not saying there’s nowhere left for tech to improve, especially in the medical and biotech space, but in the consumer market there’s only so much we realistically need. It has been addressed, end of sentence,

Im just gonna leave a few Quotes here:

When we set the upper limit of PC-DOS at 640K, we thought nobody would ever need that much memory.

William Gates, 1985

In 1894, Albert A. Michelson remarked that in physics there were no more fundamental discoveries to be made. Quoting Lord Kelvin, he continued, “An eminent physicist remarked that the future truths of physical science are to be looked for in the sixth place of decimals.

Saying that IT (or most big industry in general) has nothing left to do except for selling stupid stuff, just because capitalism requires it is straight up delusional.