Wouldn't it be amazing if Linus Torvalds just say "fuck it, fuck this controversy, fuck the CoC and all the self righteous dumbass people infecting my community!"

And just forks Linux to start a new OS? Would you support him? I bet he would have huge independent support, hell I'm poor and even I'd donate.

All they'd have to do is pull their code.

I'd follow Linus off the edge of a cliff as long as he stayed his normal self tbh

Yes but there is this problem: if such thing happens, next day Linus WILL come and tell you
-Your contribution has not been good enough for me. Suck my cock?

What will you answer then? :D

@Jilano well there's only one kernel, right. All the diversity happens with the distributors downstream, with various desktops, package managers, stock kernels, release schedules etc etc. For the distributors, a forked kernel would just mean changing the remote of their upstream sources, right. But I can see your point.. on the distribution side (downstream) the fragmentation is a real problem. We need a systemd for more aspects of Linux - especially package managers I think.

Tbh, there is more than 1 kernel, as anyone can compile his own and include his own set of patches.

Besides, linux is not the only one alternative to windows and osx.