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Who would work on Linux if Torvalds was ousted as the leader of the Kernel Team? It would be one more project that would have died out in a sea of dead open sou
by dragonbonheur 10y ago
Who would work on Linux if Torvalds was ousted as the leader of the Kernel Team? It would be one more project that would have died out in a sea of dead open source projects.
- SixSigma 10y agoSo Linux will die when Linus dies ? That's a good reason to not use Linux
- dragonbonheur 10y agoAre you still using Visicalc, released 37 years ago? If everything goes right and Linus lives up to his mid-80's even at that minimum, those years will be several life times for a single software project to live. There's a much better chance that kernel writing would have been fully automated by AI or evolved through much advanced genetic algorithms by the time Linus Torvalds passes away.
- SixSigma 10y agoI still regularly use my 8-bit from 1983 but that's irrelevant. Linus could die tomorrow, and then what?
- lima 10y agoOne of his top-level maintainers. Probably Greg Koah-Hartman. You aren't seriously suggesting that the future of Linux (one of the largest open-source projects backed by multi-billion companies) depends on one single guy?
- digi_owl 10y agoAnd watch the kernel crapify over night as GKH lets his Freedesktop friends, like say Kay Sievers, run rampant...