bboplifa@lemmy.world to ProgrammingEnglish · 2 years agoLinus Torvalds: Linux succeeded thanks to selfishness and trustwww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up189arrow-down13
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minus-squareAidan@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 years agoThis interview makes me wonder what’s going to happen after he’s gone. You could say that he’s set up whoever succeeds him for a tough act to follow. But no one necessarily has to succeed him in any way.
minus-squarelightsecondlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·2 years agoI’d imagine that Linux kernel would be governed by a council like the Rust project.
minus-squareaportlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·2 years agoGod please no. The BDFL model is vastly superior when it comes to consistency and quality. Committees fuck everything up. If Linus’s tenure prematurely ended then Greg KH would take his place.
This interview makes me wonder what’s going to happen after he’s gone. You could say that he’s set up whoever succeeds him for a tough act to follow. But no one necessarily has to succeed him in any way.
I’d imagine that Linux kernel would be governed by a council like the Rust project.
God please no. The BDFL model is vastly superior when it comes to consistency and quality. Committees fuck everything up.
If Linus’s tenure prematurely ended then Greg KH would take his place.