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20 years with nearly nothing going wrong

A representative democracy would require at least some politicians representing working cutizens.

Rants are very different from actually influencing the software. The same people rarely care for the alternatives to systemd.

those HN posters are just rabid libertarians hell bent on dragging any and all services that are not privately owned and operated for profit.

Trains are running more safely, efficiently, elegantly, and reliably than both cars and airplanes, and they have consistently done so with a much longer track record.

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Not sure what point you're trying to make but the "non corporate hobbyists" are ineffective to the point of irrelevance when it comes to Linux core development. Everything they do is downstream from the influence of giant corporations.

Private equity is an inevitability of a financialised capitalist economy, so what are you suggesting? Some sort of vigilante justice?

The so-called "Linux enthusiast community" is better described as the Linux corporate enterprise community. Understanding this makes your comment make a lot more sense. The "specific applications" are in fact merely the priorities of the giant corporations who fund the overwhelming majority of Linux development for the purpose of accumulating profit.

>The videos look impressive

Where are these videos?

You are conflating Amazon with Amazon.com, and vice versa at your convenience. It's much too sloppy of analysis to sustain a worthy discussion.