Can you assuming that you have C skills tell Linus that we all should use a new file system called FUD? NO! Is Linux any less open because you cannot ? NO!
He controls the trademark. That's pretty much all Google has going for "their" Android, too. Plus some of their own closed-source apps, of which Linus has none. Also, Linus can't really stop distributing the kernel source, whereas Google - doing the main development on Android - can just delay shipping the source for a while. But, technicalities aside, they both have similar amounts of control over their respective products.
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Can you assuming that you have C skills tell Linus that we all should use a new file system called FUD? NO! Is Linux any less open because you cannot ? NO!
please effing stop with the damn fud
Does Linus control what people do with Linux?
He controls the trademark. That's pretty much all Google has going for "their" Android, too. Plus some of their own closed-source apps, of which Linus has none. Also, Linus can't really stop distributing the kernel source, whereas Google - doing the main development on Android - can just delay shipping the source for a while. But, technicalities aside, they both have similar amounts of control over their respective products.