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The plan for Linux after Linus? A work in progress (www.theregister.com)
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[–] 27 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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    • [–] 25 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    This is my daily nightmare. How do you vet someone in skill, devotion and influence to make sure it doesn't all collapse?

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    worse come to worse there is forking. look at the bsd's.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    I don't consider that the worst case, I consider that the secret weapon off FOSS, and what Linus would prefer to see. I don't think he wants Linux to be a kingdom who is afraid of what happens when their king dies. If the people aren't empowered to take the code, make it their own, and continue owning their devices, then they weren't in it for the freedom, just the freeloading.

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    • [–] 32 points 1 year ago* (10 children)

    As long as Lennart Poettering isn't anywhere near the line of succession lol.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Oh jesus fucking christ take it back!

    Thank you for a new anxiety disorder.

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    • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    I guess he must be pretty damn old now since I'm pretty old now and he's older than me.

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    [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    A buch of llamas do drugs and wander around looking for the next incarnation

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    [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Greg KH will be fine.

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    [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    GKH though

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Agreed. If something happened, Greg would certainly take-over at least temporarily. Then the LKML would fight over succession like they fight over everything else. It would take too long, it would be dysfunctional, at least one person would quit the project but they would settle on a perfectly workable solution in the end. And it would evolve from there.

    There is a whole hierarchy of ownership in the kernel. It is not entirely explicit. It can be quite fluid. It is not as dire as the article states.

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    • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I like the penguins!

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    [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Maybe when Linus goes, mailing lists will go too? I just hope he sees the light before he leaves us.

    Anti Commercial-AI license

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