[Golden Eagle]

Linux is/was a scam method to facilitate technology transfers to foreign governments and companies, that succeeded greatly in that purpose. The arguments about it here on FR back 20:years ago were endless, but are over now. The plot was fully exposed when International Business Machines went ahead and bought Red Hat and simultaneously announced they have many more employees working outside the US than within.

[Campion]

That comment makes almost no sense. All of RedHat's technology was available free on the Internet before IBM bought them. They made their money from support contracts. Do you seriously think that Microsoft doesn't have a ton of people overseas? Apple, same question?

[powerset]

Scam? Evidence please.

P.S. Linus Torvalds was born in Finland, not the US, and started Linux there. It caught on, because it was good technology. And it was open to everybody (sort of like actual science).