Linux kernel is like 28mil lines of mostly driver and arch code. It’s open enough that you can basically use the code as it is to do what you please… There are limitations of course but the code is out there.
As it is the foundation and kernel ecosystem is seemingly pretty corporate friendly as it prob needs to be.
Are you worried that Linux might be attempted to be recooperated by capitalists somehow? It is a very valuable asset. I’m not sure how they could do it. Maybe they will try and make it more like corporate OSs… Or they will use their legal and sanctioning powers to prevent some people from using it how they would like.
A company that Google assimilated did make the Android OS from Linux and there is likely important other software that derive from open-source software in some way. In a way, the success of Linux OS proves that the Capitalist system is not the best method to incentivizes the development of artificially scarce goods especially when a few companies can use the intellectual property right to establish oligopoly and stop market competition. The Liberal idea that free market and intellectual property right is the only method to develop artificially scarce goods depends on the Liberal myths that direct economic gain is the only incentive for work and innovation.
Do you think the capitalist model has applied itself better to hardware than software? Because open source hardware is much farther behind than open source software is I think.
The models of open source hardware vs open source software are different. But I don’t see why cooperatives cannot be formed to produce hardware along with public rather than private enterprises. You see this in other countries more favorable to socialism that aren’t still stuck trying to pretend capitalism is a competent and sustainable system.