Sure, variations of it will probably be. In the same way a fork of mastodon is used for Trumps truth social platform, despite it being a predominantly left application.

The key thing you’re not considering about open source is the lack of central governance. Ubuntu can decide to impose age checks, arch could decide it requires TPM setup, and fedora could choose to move to a licensing fee model. All would be independent decisions however, and only affect the respective distro and any built from it, yet they’re all called Linux.

Besides, with all open source applications, anything implemented can be reverted by someone else. The code is licensed publicly for this exact reason.

Ah that’s what I get for skim reading the meme I guess.

I know it as shrinkflation.

At the very least they’d like their tip back.