Linus believes that government antitrust intervention can effectively combat corporate complacency and anti-competitive practices, noting the historical effectiveness of the Microsoft antitrust case.

“the way that I see this playing out is the government winning enough that it will it will be such a huge distraction and such a large sunk cost for Apple by the time this whole thing plays out that they will at least if Microsoft is anything to go by they will for 20 years or so chill the math out o”