EventDevelopersJuly 16, 2026

Linus Torvalds tells anti-AI Linux critics: fork it or walk away

Torvalds wrote in a lore.kernel.org kernel mailing-list post that "Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects," telling developers who dislike AI they can "do the open-source thing and fork it. Or just walk away." He called AI "clearly a useful" tool and said he'd "put my foot down" as top-level maintainer.

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Linus Torvalds tells anti-AI Linux critics: fork it or walk away