Why isn't Linus Torvalds a billionaire? (2017)(quora.com)

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Why isn't Linus Torvalds a billionaire? (2017)

https://www.quora.com/Why-isnt-Linus-Torvalds-a-billionaire

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bigyabai9 เดือนที่ผ่านมา

Because commercializing Linux was never the goal. There is a world where Torvalds becomes a proprietary UNIX vendor shipping Linux-as-a-service to various navies and worldwide VPS providers. But even in the 90s, all that had already been done. Much of that addressable market was already eaten or in the process of being cannibalized.

There will probably always be competing monolithic kernels out there, many owned by billionaires. Linux is differentiated because it's GNU.

aborsy9 เดือนที่ผ่านมา

Yeah, it would have been at best something like irrelevant oracle.

The world’s infrastructure is running on his Linux now!

JohnFen9 เดือนที่ผ่านมา

Because that wasn't his goal. To become a billionaire, that has to be your primary goal. If you're doing that, then you can't have other primary goals such as doing great and impactful work.

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