2 ms·

Who is the “our” that owns Linux? It is a human project and any human should be able to be maintainer. Liberalism is what makes our society great, not paranoia

• FredPret 2y ago
  So they can fork it and roll their own version of Linux. Russia-ux.
  • braincat31415 2y ago
    Not sure if you are joking or not, but BRICS certainly have enough developers for that effort, especially if it is encouraged and financed by the member states. I would not be surprised if this happens.
    • rvnx 2y ago
      Even North Korea runs their own Linux Distribution ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_OS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_OS )
    • pvaldes 2y ago
      But, would they accept Putinux as the obligatory name?
• throw0101c 2y ago
  > Who is the “our” that owns Linux? Well, the Linux Foundation which owns the Linux® trademark and employs the primary maintainer is based in the US: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Foundation Some of the most active contributer employers are Intel, Google, Linaro, AMD, Red Hat, SuSE, Meta, Oracle, Qualcomm, IBM, NVIDIA, TI, Arm, Microsoft: * https://lwn.net/Articles/972605/ https://lwn.net/Articles/972605/ * https://kernelnewbies.org/DevelopmentStatistics https://kernelnewbies.org/DevelopmentStatistics which are based in countries that have Russia on a sanctions list. The main contributer employer based in a country that doesn't have Russia on some list is Huawei. So given those folks contribute the most code to Linux, they may not want possible complications with regards to possible legal issues.