Give it a few more years and Linux will complete its inevitable evolution into Microsoft, same consolidation, same gatekeeping, just with better slogans and a smug sense of moral superiority.
There is no corporation, board, or CEO to force unwanted changes. Pretty much every piece of the operating system is free and open source.
If you don't like your "Linux", you can swap it out for another distribution or "distro".
That would be your desktop environment... Which is also typically open source on Linux.
If KDE (desktop environment) developers decide to add ChatGPT or Claude integration, I can simply uninstall it and install a different DE.
All of the patches are auditable. If I don't want a patch, I can *trivially* omit it from my kernel before compiling.
How exactly are open source kernel modules and drivers affecting my freedom?