Computing everywhere seriosuly lack a coallition of the willing. There's so much regular industrial/capitalistic dialing it in, ultra-stratified systems where t

Computing everywhere seriosuly lack a coallition of the willing. There's so much regular industrial/capitalistic dialing it in, ultra-stratified systems where those who can are a thousand miles apart from those with any power. This post is remarkably on point, not just for the Linux kernel, but for such a huge majority of computing in general. The people close to the machine are not respected & heard. Those with the most refined tastes are ignored, distrusted aliens speaking their esoteric alien whayever, put far away from power & decision making. The system is set up to exercise only the priorities that can fight their way to the top, to clear visibility. Many of the "what have you done this quarter" problems are ultra real & compound this all. The structure is a problem, but to return back, computing's best are just not understandable by most. The deep concerns matter so much, computing is so much about maintaining & caring for complex technical ecosystems, but there's so few well travelled enough to weigh in & understand & make worthwhile assessments; the techies live a too peer-less existence, disconnected from so many non-technicals with so-so motivatiom, capability, & interest to care, & separated by other techies who have their own separate stakes & motivations. Just being around other people who care & want to make things widely better is a rare gem of a place to be in computing. It shouldnt be so, but it is, and it's awful, and we have such brighter better ways to be that are always so glistening great & close, but so damnably just out of reach. The best intents have so little backing. So much unknowing unseeing resistance impedes the good, purposelessly, ignorantly, from so many assailing places. Woe.