A lot of nobel laureates believe/believed a lot of unhinged nonsense. Some of my favorites:

1. Linus Pauling thought overdosing on vitamin C could cure all kinds of medical problems

2. James Watson and William Shockley were eugenicists

3. Irving Langmuir believed large-scale weather manipulation was possible with the technology available in the 1970s

4. Luc Montagnier was really into homeopathy and spread COVID vaccine/5G conspiracy theories

5. Kary Mullis denied that HIV causes AIDS

Just winning a Nobel doesn’t automatically make someone right about everything, even in their own field.

4. Profit

If that was true, why do we even have so many distributions?

Don’t ignore the fact that part of the reason there are so many distributions, desktops, window managers, etc etc is because a large number of skilled coders have outsized egos

Occupy Wall Street: 2011

Obamacare: 2010