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minus-squareGeodad@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 month agoJust those crotchety old timers who currently gatekeep the code base.
minus-squaremrkite@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoThat doesn’t prevent you from forking it.
minus-squareGeodad@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month 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.