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Alan Cox on How Linux Can Survive Without Linus

Posted by Zonk on from the that'd-just-be-'ux' dept.

zigam writes "In another great episode of LUGRadio, kernel hacker Alan Cox talks about the kernel development process, DRM, and how Linux can survive without Linus. The usual disclaimer about British gits swearing and ranting about open source applies."

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  1. A transcript... a transcript... by advocate_one · · Score: 3, Insightful
    my keyboard for a transcript....

    well at least the download's fast from the mirror I've chosen... :)

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  2. One man software by paulatz · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Many open source project are one-man project, so they could be heavily damage by the departure of eveane a single persone.

    You remeber what happened whith Slackware when Patrick Volkerding was really sick? What would have happened if he had abandoned the maintainance of his distribution?

    I think that the history of open source is far too short to answer these questions, but, sooner or later, all the pioneers of open source will retire.

    I hope they will realize when the time will come to gradually drop their responsibilities and their influence. I also think that Richard Stallman is a good example, he has already started to retire from active development and even his leadership is becoming less practical and (even) more ideological.

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