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> A silver bullet is having one smart guy at the top who doesn't care how much pressure you exert on getting something into the codebase, Well if Linus goes to
by joelthelion 9y ago
> A silver bullet is having one smart guy at the top who doesn't care how much pressure you exert on getting something into the codebase,
Well if Linus goes too far, Google and a couple other big corporate contributors could team up and fork Linux, and it would be very hard for the open project to compete. I think the fact that Linus is so good is a big part of what makes the whole thing hold together.
- subway 9y agoThey could, and they often do (Android and ChromeOS effectively run forked kernels). At the end of the day though, they always wanna rebase against that sweet sweet mainline quality.
- carlmr 9y agoIt's simple, the stack of hacks they produced in the meantime at some point becomes a tall tower prone to fall over.