I wouldn&#x27;t put Torvalds in the same category as Stallman here. IIUC, Torvalds initially made Linux free simply because he was doing it for fun. Now he couldn&#x27;t change the license if he wanted to, and he&#x27;s getting paid to work on it anyway. In any case, it seems that he&#x27;s always been much less idealistic about software freedom than Stallman.