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By that logic, Linux isn't open source. Plenty of companies have abandoned products because maintaining a downstream fork of the kernel is too hard. Companies
by murderfs 2y ago
By that logic, Linux isn't open source. Plenty of companies have abandoned products because maintaining a downstream fork of the kernel is too hard.
Companies not being willing to invest resources into maintaining a fork doesn't mean it's not open source.
- Spivak 2y agoBut companies do maintain what are essentially forks of the kernel, both Redhat and Canonical carry their own patches and have ship different kernel variants. It's not politically a fork but it's the same sort of thing.
- JumpCrisscross 2y agoSo whether something is open source depends on whether others bother maintaining it? Even if that doesn’t change that an individual cannot?