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On Oct 20, 2013 10:44 PM, "Tanstaafl" <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On 2013-10-20 6:52 AM, Daniel Campbell <lists@××××××××.us> wrote: |
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>> So they spend a lot of money hiring developers. The more important |
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>> question is what is their agenda? What do they tell those developers to |
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>> *make*? You don't hire people without a business plan in mind. |
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> Well, once I understood their (Redhat's) motivation, which was/is |
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enterprise/cloud/vm oriented (which is why they were so concerned about |
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parallelism for startup, etc) - I dropped the conspiracy theory aspect of |
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it all... it actually does make sense in that context. |
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> And as long as Linus is at the helm of kernel development, I'm not too |
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worried about the systemd guys doing too much damage there - I just can't |
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see him letting it happen. |
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> If I were the type to worry just for the sake of worrying, I'd be |
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wondering what may happen down the road, if Linus were to suddenly lose |
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interest in kernel development (for whatever reason) and walk away from it |
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- who/what would take over the reins? But that would be pointless... |
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Linus isnt actually actively developing the kernel nowadays. Mostly he just |
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merges commits from his "trusted lieutenants" in charge of various |
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subsystems. The notion of Linus as being at the helm is mostly just a |
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convenient fiction that corporate culture (and by extension, the media) - |
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which is used to "strong leadership" - uses to make sense of open source |
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development. |
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That's partly why he finds it funny when people take his flames too |
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seriously, as if they were Word of God. |
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If he took were cut down by a sith lord, most likely morton's tree would |
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seamlessly be the new upstream. |
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