its quality will not be lower than usa linux, as they will pull latest development but not push back (to the linux list)
Probably better for BRICS countries to consider contributing to something different.
Realistically there’s no feasible way for the US to block access to use the kernel, and even a soft fork of it will be laughably easy for glowies to exploit. There are a bunch of promising kernels that could be well suited for China and Russia’s push towards RISC and ARM independence, whereas in Linux they’d be tasked with maintaining drivers and other systems that are a massive security vulnerability if you don’t have total control over them.
I’d honestly even consider it a good idea for Russia to get the FSF to fight this considering it’s a blatant violation of the GPL. Even if the president can just say whatever they like, at least you can make it embarrassing and expensive for the chauvinists gloating at the labour they exploited for years.
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personally i don’t agree with sanctioning foss communities.
but fuckit, bring on more forks i say.
among other benefits, the scifi-type scenario of nations trying to patch eachothers backdoors and slip in new backdoors (and hopefully innovations). could make for an exciting OS space-race type scenario
It was expected. This is how “free” development becomes a victim of not at all free dogmas. It is also how already fragmented Linux development becomes even more fragmented.
Please don’t…
Can we organize and force the Linux Foundation and/or OFAC to exclude open source software from these sanctions? Is anyone doing that yet?
What would be the point of the sanctions then? If the Linux Foundation were against it they could move the infrastructure to an other jurisdiction which does not sanctize countries, that would carry a strong message. But if they refuse to do that, what’s wrong with others’ forking it and doing it? That’s the point of opensource.
Americans should vote for Trump, he’s the best chance to overturn these ludicrous sanctions.
I get where you’re coming from… but no. Forking linux is way less dangerous for the world than Trump in the White House.
I guess it’s the case of аксиома Эскобара, tbh
It’ll be called BRICS Linux.
