So instead of commercial software you meant internal command line scripts and instead of running on you meant serving up web pages and instead of on linux, you meant using linux and open source web servers and instead of most commercial software you meant a single company that makes money and instead of numbers you meant guesses. Seems like a bit of a stretch. Seems like you just like to make nonsense claims and backpeddle instead of admitting they are ridiculous.

Sorry your comment doesn't really make sense to me.

Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc, are all examples of massive successful commercial applications running on Linux.

The original question was 'How can you make money on linux?'

The answer is these companies and more make billions, and the employees make hundreds of thousands, all writing applications on Linux. Most developers I know make money writing applications on Linux.

You originally said "most commercial software runs on linux" and when people told you that is a bold and possibly ridiculous thing to say, your response is 'these big websites make a lot of money and the people I know work on linux'.

Do you think that might not be indicative of the big picture? If you lived on the equator would you say "no one really needs a thick warm coat, no one I know has one" ?

I'm fascinated that you don't want to look beyond local anecdotes for real systemic information.

Out of the top 25 websites in the world, only 2 aren’t using Linux.

96.3% of the world’s top 1 million servers run on Linux.

90% of all cloud infrastructure operates on Linux.

https://hostingtribunal.com/blog/linux-statistics/

Even at Microsoft they run most stuff on Linux.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-developer-reveals-li...

72% of phones are running Linux.

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide

Look at any tech jobs site. How many jobs are for writing Microsoft Windows or macOS desktop or iOS phone software compared to for writing Linux applications? A tiny tiny proportion.

I was wondering when android would become "running on linux"

To be clear, if you were in a meeting at work and your boss asked you how to make money programming for linux, you would say to write Android apps, and you think that no one would roll their eyes from you purposely ignoring the point of the question to say something that is pragmatically nonsense and only makes sense in an extremely warped redefinition of a question?