linux: Goodbye from a Linux community volunteer
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  • pound_heap@lemm.ee
    181·
    2 months ago

    I’m afraid that if the sanctions will continue to be a go-to method of dealing with geopolitical rivals, we may end up with a few divergent forks. One for US and “the west” block, one for Chinese comrades with their junior Russian partners, and maybe one for Indian code gurus who don’t like both sides and have capable engineering resources themselves.

    • davelAEnglish
      172·
      2 months ago

      Could be. Maybe not a hard fork, if this slap fight can be contained in the driver space. I’d keep an eye on OpenHarmony and OpenKylin.

      • eldavi
        42·
        2 months ago

        Thank you for that! I was perplexed since I’ve been in the Linux space for 25 years and I was thinking that I would have to switch to bsd.

        • Draghetta@lemmy.world
          7·
          2 months ago

          If you think BSDs are devoid of drama you’re in for a cold shower…

          Switch to OpenBSD if you have to, at least the drama there is super funny

        • Dave.@aussie.zone
          3·
          2 months ago

          I was thinking that I would have to switch to bsd.

          Finally the year of Hurd on the desktop?

        • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          Doesn’t free BSD not allow anyone with a Chinese or Russian sounding name already.

    • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      I’m afraid that if the sanctions will continue to be a go-to method of dealing with geopolitical rivals, we may end up with a few divergent forks. One for US and “the west” block, one for […]

      Considering that that this idea of making a Linux for the US vs a Linux for “the rest of the world” was what made me ditch Fedora for Debian, it’d be a shame to have it happen to Linux as well. Like, sure, an alternative will emerge, but where does one go while that progresses to be daily-driver? Haiku?