> I wouldn't wonder if, at some point, developers from Russia, China and other BRICS countries will fork the Linux kernel. BRICS doesn't have a lot of real com

> I wouldn't wonder if, at some point, developers from Russia, China and other BRICS countries will fork the Linux kernel. BRICS doesn't have a lot of real commonality of interests, but in the much more closely aligned RINK (Russia-Iran-North Korea) axis, there already is a forked Linux kernel underlying North Korea's Red Star OS (which also uses forks of Western software outside the kernel as part of the distro.)