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> This means that you're catering to the tail end of a distribution and are way more likely to progress at a significantly slower rate because you're looking fo
by ben509 8y ago
> This means that you're catering to the tail end of a distribution and are way more likely to progress at a significantly slower rate because you're looking for the 10% of the population that is "the best".
It seems like he'd exactly agree. He goes on to say he doesn't want to add all those features, he'd rather go slower and his biggest job is to say "no" to new features.
- jshowa3 8y agoBut Linus is not god and is prone to his own biases. The fact that he's at the top and reviews all the commits is simply a product of history more than anything. I'm sure there have been several "average" developers that have worked on kernel code and submitted it just by the shear effort needed to maintain such a large code base. I guess, my original point is, there will be "average" developers committing to the kernel just by statistics alone.