I think we should have zero doubt that if «big tech» (msft, amazon and google) or almost anyone of them alone REALLY wanted to get rid of linus it would just fork and voila, you now have a kernel outside his control.
It doesnt matter if GPL forces them to allow upstream to use the changes if they do changes that upstream does not want.
However Linus seems to have a laser focus on the core technology and not do too much stuff the megacorps care particularly about, so I dont think its likely to happen.
Yeah, but how would that help them in any way? Google tried that with android and later they realized they have no idea what they are doing and they reverted back to following the upstream. If amount of money dictated innovation, then these corporations would be at least 10 years ahead of any competition when it comes to software, but alas I still look at the gmail web client that takes 4 seconds to load when I open it, that periodically sends popups when I close it that it didn’t manage to save my changes…
True, but those languages are from at least 20 years ago. It is much harder to get a language off the ground now. I think what the OP was saying, which I agree with, is that Elixir is one of rare examples of new languages, not from a Big Tech, and has survived past the infant mortality period.
