Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:35:55 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: Attempted summary of suspend-blockers LKML thread, take three |
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> Why do people care that "android is forking the kernel"?
A lot of us don't. That's what the GPL is about. It's a big pain if you start splitting it off into two entire things long term - because your maintenance grows harder exponentially but parallel forks are common - SuSE and RHEL Enterprise type editions are forks for example.
As far as I can tell it all comes from one or two people with a big PR presence and almost no code in the kernel saying silly things years ago which the IT press see as a good way to create a 'we need a column, bash someone' story.
"What the junk press think" is a common but broken way to run national policy in some countries, and its just as broken for the kernel.
Alan
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