linux did start as a hobby . pretty sure linus torvalds modified some minux code and then pretty much started from there.
And as for donating what the hell is wrong with that.
you can donate to whatever you want. It just helps
them out and it is only voluntary . so stop whinging about him making donations.
i could donate to a project which upgrades commodore 64's to turn them into 64 bit 5ghz quad cpu etc.
Ok i have to go have my pills now :-D
