Maybe I'm just being too humorless, but I found the quoted passage a bit too dismissive of all the good things that are being done in cloud environments. Some of us are developing products that actually make people's lives better, and we're selling those products as SaaS, but we're not yet big enough to operate dedicated hardware with the same level of reliability and security that, say, AWS can achieve, so we run in a shared cloud environment. Anyway, the constant cynicism in online communities like this one, and reflected in that part of the OP, gets to me.
The Linux kernel community has always had a bit of a suspicious attitude towards commercial use. This attitude long predates the cloud / SaaS and reflects Linux’s origins (and Linus Torvalds’ world view) inside Scandinavian academia.
I agree, especially since this huge change was a prime example of how open source is incredible ! This work was made possible because engineers working for competitors such as DigitalOcean, Google, Oracle and Microsoft worked together with the kernel community to find an acceptable software solution to a hardware problem that impacts a lot of people.
