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		steelframe on March 28, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fuchsia Workstation > scare the Linux kernel maintainers into thinking that they could lose their biggest userbase (Android) and make them more compliant. Not so sure about that. It's not like any of them collect royalties. If anything it just adds to their maintenance workload.

phendrenad2 on March 28, 2022 [–]

It's my belief that open-source maintainers usually become attached to the fame and importance they get, and they prefer to see the number of people using their project go up not down.

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