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If the way the Kernel is used in China acts as any indicator, it'll be a hard fork that gets discarded every few years for a new hard fork.

• jandrese 8y ago
  Ouch, that's the worst of both worlds approach. Insecure and you get all of the work to re-port the code regularly.
  • lawlessone 8y ago
    >and you get all of the work to re-port the code regularly. Secure job though, with predictable repeatable work.
    • TomMarius 8y ago
      Aren't you always guaranteed (and required to have) a job in China? That's how it was in Eastern Europe before the fall.
      • imron 8y ago
        No. It hasn't been that way in China for maybe 30 years now.
        • TomMarius 8y ago
          Oh, okay. Which part? Both, or just the compulsory employment?
          • imron 8y ago
            Both. China is not really a communist country anymore except in name.
            • lev99 8y ago
              China is very much communist. It's very different than 19th and 20th century communist state, but the US looks very different than a 19th and 20th century capitalist state. The Chinese governmental structure is very much communist. The ideals in the propaganda are communist. The goverment has strong control of their citizens, controlling how many children they can have, which city they can live in, etc.
              • pas 8y ago
                Do workers own the means of production? No. Are they going toward that? No. It's not "communist" then.
                • geezerjay 8y ago
                  > Do workers own the means of production? No. Are they going toward that? No. It's not "communist" then. Newsflash: workers never owned the means of production in any communist state. They were told they would, but they were subjected to compulsory work to cater to the communist regime's elite goals while owning nothing at all. That sort of bait and switch is pretty much the hallmark of every single communist regime since the very beginning.
                  • pas 8y ago
                    As far as I know Revolutionary Catalonia came the closest to that. That said, I don't really care that dictatorships after dictatorships called themselves socialist and communist, people's this and that, they - as good populists always do - subverted the people and their ideas. Just as North Korea is a "democratic" "republic". Mistake not this nitpicking for defense of communism. I don't think it makes any economic sense to strip away savings and investment and everything else connected to those for compulsory ownership of your workplace. So yes, bait and switch is what populism is. And it worked and continues to work wonderfully independent of political leaning/orientation.
              • AlexB138 8y ago
                You're looking for the term Totalitarian. All Communists are Totalitarian, not all Totalitarians are Communists. They've long since done away with the pretenses of Communism.
      • faitswulff 8y ago
        Not anymore. That was known as the "iron (rice) bowl," but that governmental job security has long since been removed from most positions.
• fspeech 8y ago
  I read that the fork is from an older version of Chrome so it could work with XP.