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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Date: 29 Oct 2024 19:48:57 GMT
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On Tue, 29 Oct 2024 14:22:56 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

> rbowman wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
> 
>> On Tue, 29 Oct 2024 09:16:16 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
>>
>>> It is great in theory, but everyone seems to want to have their own
>>> distribution so rather than working together for a common goal,
>>> they're working apart. Theoretically, the improvements go into the
>>> same pool no matter what but I wonder if they actually do.
>>
>> I don't know if it will happen but I read an article this morning that
>> Russia is forking the Linux kernel as a fork you to Torvalds.
> 
> Will the Russians follow the GPL?  :-D

So far they pay lip service to it in Astra Linux.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astra_Linux

Russia, China, or any other country that the US might sanction at the drop 
of a hat would be stupid not to have a plan. China has Kylin, based on 
Ubuntu. Cuba's Nova has been on again and off again. Like DFS they really 
prefer Windows if they can get it. Then there's North Korea's Red Star OS. 
I'm sure that's all sorts of free and open with their fork of Firefox.