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But companies do maintain what are essentially forks of the kernel, both Redhat and Canonical carry their own patches and have ship different kernel variants. I
by Spivak 2y ago
But 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?