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The Campaign to Take Torvalds Out of Linux

by bin0 on 9/20/19, 4:41 PM with 4 comments

• by bin0 on 9/20/19, 4:42 PM

  Some quick backstory as to why I just posted this: I originally submitted it almost three months ago [0]; it was quickly flagged down as a "conspiracy theory". I don't necessarily agree with everything here, but don't think it's that. I'm posting again in light of rms' recent expulsion from almost everything, because I think the increasing "corporatization" of OSS stuff will lead to him eventually being kicked out. I'm certainly not sure of any of this, but I think recent events make this article particularly pertinent.

  [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20325213

• by LocalH on 9/20/19, 5:13 PM

  How does /. even have any influence anymore? They seem to be k5 lite nowadays, tbh. At least in terms of comments

• by simonblack on 9/21/19, 1:50 AM

  As always, follow the money.

  Linux (no matter what it may be called at the time, or who is its current poster boy) is now too big to be nailed down by any one company or even any one country.

  Microsoft may, in fact, end up owning the name 'Linux' and proclaim that it is the 'one, true owner'. That will not stop Linux from being forked into another cloned project with a different name and letting 'Linux (TM)' wither on the vine.