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minus-squareGeodad@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·3 days agoJust those crotchety old timers who currently gatekeep the code base.
minus-squaremrkite@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 hours agoThat doesn’t prevent you from forking it.
minus-squareGeodad@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 hours agoThe Linux kernel is a few hundred million lines of code, probably. It does need to slowly be moved into a memory safe language.
Just those crotchety old timers who currently gatekeep the code base.
That doesn’t prevent you from forking it.
The Linux kernel is a few hundred million lines of code, probably. It does need to slowly be moved into a memory safe language.