Datamation: “‘At the kernel itself, the community is very disciplined, so you don’t see the kernel forking,’ says Bill Weinberg, an open source architecture specialist who works for the Open Source Development Laboratory (OSDL) in Beaverton, Or. ‘But there is the potential for divergence among some of the Linux distributions, which makes it challenging for vendors to ship shrink-wrapped software without having a lot of installation and maintenance challenges across distributions.'”