Globohomo glowniggers took Linus and put him in a psych ward after he shat all over Intel back when Spectre and Meltdown happened, and showed him videos of what happens to important public figures who don't do what they're told.
They were going to torture his daughter to death in front of him if he didn't do everything they wanted. So you can hardly blame him for selling out.
They tried this with Jobs but he didn't give a shit about anybody else but his daughter. So they had his wife give him turbo AIDS.