Quoting Russell Coker (russell@coker.com.au):
Also the "essentially capitalist" thing is something you can only believe if you are wilfully ignorant of everything relating to GNU, Debian, or even Linux itself - remember that Minix was always the somewhat commercial OS with source available. Linus could have extended Minix but he decided to make a non- commercial OS that was totally free, he doesn't talk about freedom as much as others like RMS and he is a multi-millionaire, but that wouldn't have happened if Linux was commercial.
Excuse me, but Linux is not 'non-commercial'. It is non-proprietary, but that is a wholly different concept. I and millions of other people use it in commerce, and it itself is also bought and so, every day. I'm surprised to see you make that elementary gaffe in 2013.