Mitt Green <mitt_green@???> wrote:

> I reckon as long as his Fedora boots, he doesn't care.

I think that's the key reason.
Linus is concerned with the kernel - and while I suspect he has personal preferences about what is run on top of that, he's "detached" enough to take the attitude that what people want to run is up to them. Now, if people start demanding "broken" features go into the kernel to support their projects - then he's interested.