Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense.

A lot of people still like Solaris, but I'm in active competition with them, and so I hope they die.

I really never wanted to do source control management at all and felt that it was just about the least interesting thing in the computing world .

I may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same time, I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease.

What commercialism has brought to Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out.

There's a few historical reasons for why git was considered complicated. One of them is that it was complicated. The people who started using git very early on in order to work on the kernel really had to learn a very rough set of scripts to make everything work. All the effort had been on making the core technology work and very little on making it easy or obvious.

I'd like to point out that I don't think that there is anything fundamentally superior in the GPL as compared to the BSD license, for example. But the GPL is what I want to program with, because unlike the BSD license it guarantees that anybody who works on the project in the future will also contribute their changes back to the community.