You know what? I'd love to believe that extreme, life-threatening poverty will be a thing of the past during what statistically will be my lifetime.

But I can't.

Linus Torvalds didn't look at growing food. He developed an operating system. Something which those who are threatened by that level of starvation won't even have heard of.

Now I'm not dissing what he did. He worked within the parameters of his interests, abilities and the tools at his disposal. Extremely commendable.

But we're talking about two very different things, here. Just think for a moment where food and operating systems fall respectively on Maslow's hierarchy of needs. And there are too many people who have a vested interest in keeping the starving people under the jackboot. Powerful, unscrupulous people. People who don't operate in the civilised circles of those who had/have a vested interest in keeping people paying for their operating systems.

Nothing would give me greater pleasure than to have to publicly recant on this point