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Does Linus control what people do with Linux?

• moeffju 16y ago
  He controls the trademark. That's pretty much all Google has going for "their" Android, too. Plus some of their own closed-source apps, of which Linus has none. Also, Linus can't really stop distributing the kernel source, whereas Google - doing the main development on Android - can just delay shipping the source for a while. But, technicalities aside, they both have similar amounts of control over their respective products.