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What were Linus comments that precipitated this?
Given how used I am to every statement by a politician or business being this slick, polished, carefully re-drafted beige speech it's a real contrast to see someone like Torvalds just blasting out their thoughts
No clue how all this shakes out. Not real invested in this ideological/bureaucratic slap fight.
It's always entertaining when Linus flames off.
When Linus becomes entertaining is when he is not doing his job properly.
Either the death of the Linux Foundation or the exclusion of the Linux foundation from kernel development for at least a few versions. In any case Linus likely used the last of his goodwill in proving he's more American than any other descriptor.
Ehh. IDK if that would be bad or good for Linux. More choices against the possibility of weaker teams/poorer code. Even if things did fragment for a while, one version likely comes out on top and everyone migrates slowly back together.
Interwebs and tech seems to route around this sort of thing.
Sure but tech has only existed during peaceful times. With the world splitting apart you can’t assume it we’ll be the same outcome.
It's better in the long term, free software and the political philosophy behind it is entirely incompatible with American political ideology or geopolitics generally. If everyone can contribute, everyone can benefit. When you start limiting this by arbitrary nonsensical reasoning due to legal obligations you only have because the founder of the foundation has a boner for an idealized America that never existed... Shit gets worse. From this many developers are going to permanently leave Linux development and a few may get petty enough to change their license to prevent use in Linux.
Yah sure the guys who are paid to contribute to Linux are going to leave.
Yes, if enough principaled contributors leave, it'll no longer make sense for companies to pay for people to contribute.