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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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