Personally, I don't care much for linear switches. But they may be a good source of revenue for you without a lot of trouble.
To make revenue on them, there would also have to be a buyer that makes gaming keyboards. Matias already has a buyer for the tactile and clicky switches: itself.
From what I have seen, one of the biggest points with cloned Alps switches is to provide the feel of vintage Mac keyboards to long-term Mac users who can discriminate between what works well and what is flash. Cherry MX does not compete in that niche, but Cherry is the leader in linear switches and there is a small ecosystem around Cherry MX. If Matias would make linear switches, then because Alps does not have this reputation and ecosystem around it, any new linear Alps switch would be inferior in that market, and that would not make good business sense.
What I really meant with my previous post about linear Alps was that, if you want a keyboard with linear Alps, go ahead and mod it yourself.
This is exactly right. Thanks for saving me the trouble of writing it.
A few additional points...
Cherry makes great linear switches. The Reds are especially good IMO. For gamers who want to "ride the contact point", linear is the way to go. You can press one key, repeatedly, VERY FAST doing this.
However, when you're typing words, you're not just pressing one key; you're pressing lots of different keys in rapid succession, AND they have to be pressed in the right order. That's much easier to do if you can FEEL the contact point -- which is what tactile switches give you. Linear switches totally suck for this.
For as long as I can remember, Cherry switches were linear and ALPS were tactile.
The Cherry Blue switch is the closest thing they make to tactile, but quite frankly, as a tactile switch, it isn't that great. It's this crazy Rube Goldberg contraption that's trying to be something it's not. That it's the most popular Cherry switch is due (I believe) to the fact that people don't only use their keyboards for gaming -- so a little tactile feedback is better than none at all.
If you're not primarily a gamer, I think you'll find ALPS switches are a better tool for the job.