Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: The direction linux is taking | Date | Wed, 2 Jan 2002 12:07:37 +0100 |
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On January 2, 2002 11:50 am, Neil Brown wrote: > On Wednesday January 2, phillips@bonn-fries.net wrote: > > > > Yes, that's all +5 insightful, except... what makes you think any one of the > > Linux core hackers is irreplaceable? I know you didn't say that, but you > > did say 'single point of failure', and it amounts to the same thing. > > I think that the difference is that there is no planning to make sure > that no-one is irreplaceable.
Right, it's like the difference between a planned economy and a capitalist one. People find their own niches in the Linux heirarchy. Except for a few 'official' maintainer positions there is nobody doing any assigning. Surely there is some irony in this.
> Sure people can be replaced, but it > might take a while. A subsystem might be unmaintained (or > under-maintained) for a while until some sucker^Wdeveloper puts their > hand up. That isn't a situation that a "fortune 500 bureaucracy" > would be able to tolerate. But we seem to cope.
Yep, we're just lucky ;)
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