Messages in this thread | | | From | Neil Brown <> | Date | Wed, 2 Jan 2002 21:50:34 +1100 (EST) | Subject | Re: The direction linux is taking |
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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. 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.
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