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The same can be said about the Linux codebase. Tomorrow Linus could private his branch and stop supporting public releases. If AOSP goes closed source then peop

The same can be said about the Linux codebase. Tomorrow Linus could private his branch and stop supporting public releases. If AOSP goes closed source then people can fork it and continue to maintain it.

fsflover 11mo ago
Linus is not known for decisions hostile to the users. Google is.
kahnclusions 11mo ago
Linux doesn’t really rely on Linus for coding anymore…
- gf000 11mo ago
  It does on Intel, AMD and a bunch of other huge corps though
  - fsflover 11mo ago
    Which is not the same as one single, hostile corp.
    - gf000 11mo ago
      I do agree that each company's influence in case of the kernel is much lower, than Google's relevance in Android, but there are other big-ish players in the space as well, like Samsung.
akdev1l 11mo ago
The Linux kernel cannot be relicensed. Linus does not hold copyright to most code.