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Well Facebook is just a user of compute, not a seller of it. Google and Amazon sell compute as a business. The incentives are different. Facebook, despite its size, will never be a large fraction of Linux usage, so they are much wiser to benefit from the improvements of the community and give and take from the master. Amazon sells compute so their contributions would be shared by only the three major cloud vendors.



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