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It’s like exactly what I said they would do after the original news of the bans from the other day. And I got downvoted for it. Lol
That’s because they’re not going to actually do it.
It’s almost certain that they will be doing it and that Chinese will join in because they’re the obvious next target.
Dunno why this is being down voted, obviously they’ll make their own fork and it’ll likely be no different than the regular kernel and they’ll just be constantly rebasing
That’s likely what’s going to happen in short to medium term, but it’s quite possible it’ll diverge eventually. We can look at Huawei forking Android as an example here, they kept it largely compatible for a few years, and then started taking things in a new direction that broke compatibility. Between Russia and China alone there’s a huge pool of talented developers who can rival anything developers in the west can do.
Good for them.
Should be interesting, perhaps the Russian fork will become even more successful than the canonical.
Yeah, I wonder which one I’ll choose.
whichever one NSA tells you to use
the country doing the most cyber attacks wants to do its own linux forks. what could possibly go wrong
For sure, stuxnet is just the beginning, who knows what the US will subject the world to next.
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
You’re not wrong but it’s not like it’s unprecedented. North Korea already does this with Red Star OS. It’s just Linux with a bunch of spyware and government tracking/surveillance on top (edit: it’s also definitely not open source)
True
Wait US is also forking Linux?
