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What's your point here? That volunteers not financially backed by the US regime don't magically have the capacity to reverse engineer the dozens upon dozens of blobs that get added to the kernel every release cycle? Or that they're even trying at all? Both aren't a good look for whatever you're trying to say
Now you're just being vindictive towards others and I really don't like that. It doesn't cost anything to not be unkind towards people's contributions. You're free to criticize the approach but I draw the line at the idea that it is worthless because none of this work is.
Comrade, I'm merely pointing out that binary blobs have been the bane of open source for decades and my ass is old enough to remember when the original debate about accepting them or rejecting them originally happened. Some, like mainline Linux accepted then, while more hardcore folks like Theo de Raat from OpenBSD refused to accept them, and wireless drivers for a decade were absolutely shit until everyone reverse engineered the broadcom drivers.
I'm merely stating that a fork needs to be more substantial than just deleting a bunch of binary drivers and saying boom I now have my own fork of the Linux kernel.
I mean I could delete all the Linux fiber channel drivers and claim that I have a fork of Linux but that's not notable
it's still a useful thing to have exist even if it doesn't meet your arbitrary standard of a "real" fork
for people that aren't severe linux-heads, recreating what they've done and producing a working kernel without blobs and such would be non-trivial to impossible.