Actually, that's exactly how it started: read Linus Torvalds' "Just for Fun".

Was Linux owned by a large company? Was the maintainer getting paychecks from that company? Was it profit motivated? Was it released as an AI experiment?

If the similarity is "they are both open source projects" then so are about a million others. 99.99% of them don't get any traction beyond the first week.

	▲	rovr138 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The similarity is to, > You think you'll get better long-term support from an experiment that a single engineer did in his spare time? Linus started it as an experiment. That's a single engineer doing it on his spare time. Do you think Linux doesn't do long-term support right? The one changing the goal post is you. https://github.com/cloudflare/vinext It is MIT licensed. It can be used and maintained by anyone. If it'll get adoption like Linux did, that's different. But the base is there.