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Quotes of the weekQuotes of the weekPosted Apr 12, 2012 14:24 UTC (Thu) by endecotp (guest, #36428)In reply to: Quotes of the week by felixfix Parent article: Quotes of the week
> It's Linus's kernel, his rules. If you perceive his methods as
> abuse, then stay away.
The important question is: can a project afford to alienate potential contributors who choose to stay away for reasons like this?
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Quotes of the week Posted Apr 12, 2012 14:28 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] It up to the people working on the project to decide. Linux is not yet forked thus the answer is obvious "yes".
Quotes of the week Posted Apr 12, 2012 18:30 UTC (Thu) by felixfix (subscriber, #242) [Link]
khim has it in a nutshell. There are no hard and fast rules on what works everywhere. If Linus turns out to have made a bad choice, it will show up when the kernel forks, in which case you will have been right. But it hasn't forked in 20 years, meaning so far Linux has made a good enough choice. If you think you can do better, fork it.
Quotes of the week Posted Apr 12, 2012 23:53 UTC (Thu) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]
Don't forget, 1. $BDOL is always right, 2. and should there be a time where he's not, see 1. :)
[This originally from perl & Larry.]
Quotes of the week Posted Apr 13, 2012 12:21 UTC (Fri) by james (subscriber, #1325) [Link]
The 2.4-ac kernels were pretty close to a (mostly-)amicable fork within the same community (with Alan Cox in charge instead of Linus), and a good example of how the community can work round Linus where necessary.
The fact that it's only really happened that once shows that even when Linus makes the wrong choice, he can usually be talked round. The fact that it happened at all shows that the future of Linux doesn't rest in one person's hands.
Quotes of the week Posted Apr 13, 2012 16:35 UTC (Fri) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]
I would say that the kernel forks all the time. The Android kernel is a fork, most server vendor kernels are forks, many kernel developers have their own public forks. What defines Linux is not the lack of forks, it's the ease of merging and cross pollination of forks.
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