Messages in this thread | | | From | (david parsons) | Subject | [Wildly off-topic] Re: Linus is on a powertrip.. | Date | 1 Oct 1998 18:36:58 -0700 |
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In article <linux.kernel.199810020027.TAA08766@dyheli.kwr>, <kwrohrer@enteract.com> wrote: >And lo, Eric S. Raymond saith unto me: >> >> Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl>: >> > [ 80 people can commit changes to FreeBSD] >> > It is really a pity that the most popular free UNIX is so chaotic, and >> > it's only becoming worse. Please don't misunderstand me: I'm not >> > trying to pursuade anyone into FreeBSD, but I just wish that the most >> > important free UNIX (which is Linux at the moment) would be more >> > coherent and better organized. >> >> Chaos and openness are Linux's *strengths*. You have the causality backwards; >> Linux is "the most important free Unix" precisely because it does *not* >> follow the model you describe. >Further, the chaos that feeds Linux is constructive chaos; the chaos that >would ensue if 80 people had "final say" over various parts of Linux would >be quite destructive, I think.
You're describing the direction Linux is going[1], and the mounting chaos around us is describing why Linux is going that way. There is already peeping about it being improper for hoi polloi to be able to just commit things into the kernel; if this was formalized into a core team, it certainly wouldn't make things any worse except to the black helicopter devotees of the world.
____ david parsons \bi/ [1: With the exception that there's one person with \/ final say over Linux now. At least until he suffers a nervous breakdown and the rest of the core developers have to pick up the pieces in a hurry.]
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