The real challenge for Linux will be when Linus retires. The Linux Foundation was intended act as the backstop here, but it is losing that focus, and I'm not c

The real challenge for Linux will be when Linus retires. The Linux Foundation was intended act as the backstop here, but it is losing that focus, and I'm not confident that it will remain a trusted steward in the future. For now, and to the point here, the sheer number of meaningful contributors to Linux is what differentiates it from things like Java and .NET. GCC is somewhere in the middle: less resilient than Linux, but more than Java.