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Re:Linux md maintainer, Shaohua Li, has died by giancarlostoro on Thursday January 03, 2019 @06:57AM (#18814472)
I fear for whoever replaces Linus the most, whether it be one person or a committee. If they don't hold the kernel up to his standards it just might not be the same. Worse yet will be if any given corporation gains control of Linux at which point, either through a fork or otherwise. Sadder yet is I'm less concerned about Microsoft supporting Linux than I would be Google.
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Re:Linux md maintainer, Shaohua Li, has died by PakG1 on Thursday January 03, 2019 @08:18AM (#18814812)
If I could bet on this, I'd actually bet on Oracle taking the torch. Not because I think that's a good idea, just rather it'd unfortunately continue the trend (OpenOffice, MySQL, Java, etc) and everyone would bet against it, giving me a huge payoff when it happens. Fortunately, there's no way for them to "acquire" Linux, I believe.
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Re:Linux md maintainer, Shaohua Li, has died by rhinoceraptor on Thursday January 03, 2019 @05:38PM (#18820033)
They would need buy-in from all of the maintainers/contributors for that to happen. And there are a lot of them.

I'm seeing 2466 unique maintainers (curl -s 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/torvalds/linux/master/MAIN... | grep -P "M:\t" | uniq | wc -l), and only 10 of them with @oracle.com emails. They're the 11th biggest contributor by company.

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Re:Linux md maintainer, Shaohua Li, has died by Aissen on Thursday January 03, 2019 @01:59PM (#18818030)
Jenkins, LibreOffice, MariaDB (and others) are doing just fine without Oracle.
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Re:Linux md maintainer, Shaohua Li, has died by PakG1 on Thursday January 03, 2019 @02:12PM (#18818174)
Yes, but those are all forks. I was answering the question only, nothing more. If Oracle took on Linux (whatever that would mean), I have no doubt another fork would start as well.

edit: and this is a really contrived subject and example, because honestly, I can't think of how Oracle would take control of Linux anyway.

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Re:Linux md maintainer, Shaohua Li, has died by rhinoceraptor on Thursday January 03, 2019 @05:41PM (#18820050)
Illumos isn't, it has a couple companies propping it up but outside of that hardly anyone uses it.
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