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How does linus get paid? Money motivates the worst parts of humanity.
Oh yeah, he gets paid a salary by a council made up of tech corporations at the linux foundation. He's at the financial mercy of Microsoft, Alphabet (Google), Meta, and other tech corp execs and suits.
No conspiracy here, just dialectical materialism.
And yet he publicly speaks against and attacks these companies all the time. But just this once he's in their pocket?
There is no conspiracy —everything Linus says is able to be scrutinized because of the financial ties and his voluntary choice of material conditions. His bosses are these people: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/leadership He chooses to work under them. No one is holding a gun to his head: only his salary and healthcare since he is in the US (he can fly to other places and get cheaper healthcare than you or I).
How many of them own AI stock and have financial incentive to not ban it from linux? Even if this is purely Linus' opinion (it very well may be), if he instead had the opinion of banning ai completely from linux, you are saying no one above him would be incentivized to change his mind? Zero? Be realistic, don't assume everyone only acts in good faith. Linus can be the only one acting in good faith here and still could be influenced via his direct financial ties. Not mutually exclusive things.
People are allowed to scrutinize Linus and his actions and his choices. Linus shouldn't be trusted just because.
I'm not taking away your right to scrutinize it any way you want, I'm just offering a simpler explanation that you are free to disagree with. While I can disagree with his opinion, I don't believe it's anything but his actual opinion, as he has historically always held on to his technical opinions even when they burned bridges and were unpopular.