People live forever, why should anyone try to take up the reigns from the older generation? I think it's clear, even if you don't like some of Sons's attitude,

People live forever, why should anyone try to take up the reigns from the older generation? I think it's clear, even if you don't like some of Sons's attitude, that this was a sound-bity quote likely taken a little out of context. And why do people fork a project when they want to fix things? I'm sure there were dozens of problems in getting started on fixing NTP, BitKeeper was just the first problem to deal with. What can you do when the current maintainer is so contrary that they have already lost access to free funding to modernize a dying code base? We don't need NTP backported to unix workstations that EOL'd over a decade ago, we need an NTP that doesn't cause more problems than it solves.