Actually, that's exactly how it started: read Linus Torvalds' "Just for Fun".
If the similarity is "they are both open source projects" then so are about a million others. 99.99% of them don't get any traction beyond the first week.
> You think you'll get better long-term support from an experiment that a single engineer did in his spare time?
Linus started it as an experiment. That's a single engineer doing it on his spare time.
Do you think Linux doesn't do long-term support right?
The one changing the goal post is you.
https://github.com/cloudflare/vinext It is MIT licensed. It can be used and maintained by anyone.
If it'll get adoption like Linux did, that's different. But the base is there.