There's a lot of comments considering the general case of losing a key person on a project, but I think it'd be interesting to speculate on what happens to Linu

There's a lot of comments considering the general case of losing a key person on a project, but I think it'd be interesting to speculate on what happens to Linux when Linus leaves the project! Will it go embrace, extend, exterminate? Will there be a bunch of forks? Will Redhat/IBM/Canonical types keep it up?