> I would love it if Intel, Red Hat, and everyone else that pays kernel devs to put up with his abuse just forked the kernel
Effectively Red Hat and Oracle have both done that. They publish their own version of the kernel as a tarball, with their own patches mixed into it, rather than broken out into separate patches / bug fixes / improvements. This is to make it difficult for their modifications to be lifted out and re-used.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
