“It is important to create conditions for cooperation, which can help develop a unique product,” Russia's digital ministry said in response to 11 developers being delisted from maintaining the Linux kernel.
then it wont be linux, but a shittily maintained private copy that will fall out of disuse quickly unless they merge all upstream changes without too much oversight (in which case, why bother?) to keep feature parity
At first I thought you meant it’d be a bad fork, but then I realise you meant it’d be a bad fork.
As long as it’s open source and vetted by the public, I don’t see how it could go bad tbh
It won’t be open source. Who’s gonna sue Russia for license violation?
then it wont be linux, but a shittily maintained private copy that will fall out of disuse quickly unless they merge all upstream changes without too much oversight (in which case, why bother?) to keep feature parity