Maybe it wasn't just Linus
this post was submitted on 29 Apr 2021
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company just making company things (although I agree with that statement, the redhat one)
Personally, I only care about the code. When I say maybe there are people who worry about walled gardens and cloud providers who take ownership of your data, I am not one of those people.
-- the kernel guy (source)
Uh, Sun Microsystems basically offered cloud computing before everyone else, but...