“Linux devotees need not worry about the Linux kernel ever
forking into multiple, incompatible derivatives, Andrew Morton,
lead maintainer of the 2.6 version of the kernel, said at the Open
Source Business Conference here on Tuesday.“Forking of the kernel would result in a $100 million-per-year
expense to maintain the forked version, thus making it undesirable
for anyone to fork it, according to Morton, of Open Source
Development Labs. Besides, forking would require a massive fallout
amongst the kernel development team, and Morton said he has never
seen any indication that that could ever happen…”
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