Part of the reason why I know Linux and open source software is because i can use it at my job and make money. If that isn't allowed then i am basically forced to use Windows along with the rest of the world.

Not only that but a huge portion of linux code is contributes by people getting paid by these large companies.

Linux would be reduced to some weird hobby project no one knows about or really cares about and we would be all stuck on Windows or some other proprietary OS.

[–] comfortable_doug@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Linux definitely wouldn't be stranded without corporate input. A.) A large portion of Linux has been written by volunteers, not employees of a corporation giving back to the project, and B.) The majority of the time these corporate contributions are things like drivers for their own closed source hardware to work with Linux. I've only ever contributed to open source voluntarily, with the exception of three pull requests that were written so that, surprise surprise, our corporate shit could work with the open source shit. I'm not saying there wouldn't be disruptions if we axed all that code, just that it wouldn't be the project-ending amount you suggested.