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> The graph shows five different vertical bars

Actually 6

I am dumb and don't understand you. Or the other way around.

Exactly. All countries are equal, but there are countries that are more equal than others.

USA used to have quite some business on the Russian soil. Sacrificing them for the sake of politics was considered needed and doable.

One thing is antisemitism and anticommunism. One thing is being against Putin and Netanyahu, for example. Putin is not communism, Netanyahu is not Israel.

I fear they are. It looks to me they control the companies paying for the development and that they control the people doing the development by means of laws and decrees.

Yes, you can fork Linux in Kenya, France, Russia, China and Brazil. But then, you'll get several different Linux branches, diverging more and more as time goes by.

So those Russian developers are banned from Linux. Aren't they?

So you answer reads like "Yes, USA gov can control Linux".

I ask because i don't know for sure.

You reply with no reasoning, for sure.

Why?

What about the blobs mentioned before? Those are closed source binaries running as root with direct access to the hardware, like the baseband modem. It can talk to the internet without any auditing being possible.

By removing them from a first class open source project?

Why not Israeli devs too?

Or shutdown most of the money sources?

Most of current development runs on money that is directly or indirectly controlled by the USA gov.

Why

Officially it is opensource so answer should be "no".

But ... what if you shutdown access to all Linux kernel-related sites and repos?

My first text editor has been vi on NCR Unix machines back in 1986 and DEC Ultrix in 1988. I fell so deeply in love that I joyed only when I could get a "copy" of vi.exe from MKS unix-like toolkit for DOS. That file only.

Nice read, indeed. Especially the final sentence.

> Also... Emacs sucks!

A life is a life is a life is a life.

I really wonder how tight the control of the PotUSA can be, FSF included.

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

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I hope the so-called blobs have been replaced with unprivileged opensource versions.

Otherwise privacy and security would be meaning basically nothing.

They need to call Mrs. Merkel back.

It reminds me the story of ... Linux. "It won't be big and professional..."

I think I met a few. Two or three in 40+ years. They simply can figure out the entire thing at least from high level view. Often also to the finest details. I need to carefully read the blueprints, the docs, some example code. Then I can start coding

Same seems to go for https://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/

20 yo backwards compatibility in IT technology is impossible.

> I can pull down a 20 year old exe and still run it today on Windows. Try doing the same with a Linux binary that's just a year old.

How this can be considered a good thing?

Exactly like xv6, Xinu is rather unix-ish. Still very very interesting to study.

https://github.com/mit-pdos/xv6-riscv

https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2024/

Yet another tool on top of other ones.

Let's hope no backdoor will be added there.

Correct! I fixed my numbers too. Still a lot of stuff.

There have been a number of futures that weren't.

I feel that the so-called market decides what goes in the future and sticks in the past.

No matter how good, cheap and effective something is. If it's embraced by markets (corn whatever reason, marketing campaign included), it will succeed.

Some maths.

1 squared meter surface times 10 km in depth yields ... 10,000 cubic m of mass to be vaporized and then "dispersed" into the atmosphere.

At a density of 5.5 kg/dm^3 it would weight about ... 55 thousands metric tonnes of rock.

To vaporize 1 kg of liquid water it takes 2250 kcal of energy.

If that mass was water it would require 1.23e11 kcal of energy.

I suspect that both the amount of energy needed and the amount of pollution added would be unbearable.

And this is for a hole that's "just" 10 km deep.