LinuxFR has an interview with Linus Torvalds on a wide range of subjects. “LinuxFR : What is your opinion about Android ? Are you mostly happy they made cellphones very usable or sad because it’s really a kernel fork ? Linus Torvalds : I think forks are good things, they don’t make me sad. A lot of Linux development has come out of forks, and it’s the only way to keep developers honest – the threat that somebody else can do a better job and satisfy the market better by being different. The whole point of open source to me is really the very real ability to fork (but also the ability for all sides to then merge the forked content back, if it turns out that the fork was doing the right things!)”