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He probably owns some root certs. Likely if he were to start exercising such authority without being an active developer, there would be a fork soon enough.
by justonepost 8y ago
He probably owns some root certs. Likely if he were to start exercising such authority without being an active developer, there would be a fork soon enough.
Isn't that what happened to emacs?
- pzone 8y agoA few times, but so far GNU has held on.
- favorited 8y agoIt happened with GCC. Today's GCC is actually a fork of the original, which became the "blessed" version once the forkers and RMS worked out resolved some issues that led to the fork. The unforked (for lack of a better term) GCC was set aside, and the fork became the official version.
- chx 8y agoJust for the sake of completeness: the EGCS fork you are talking about was alive 1997-1999.