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Kernel Contributor Corbet Says Linux Community Is 'Intimidating'
An anonymous reader writes "Key Linux kernel contributor Jonathan Corbet has admitted the developer community can be intimidating and hard to break into. He highlighted the issue during his Linux.conf.au presentation on the Linux kernel. Corbet expressed concern about the exclusivity of the kernel community, but says it's doing well regardless. He said in a period of just over a year, 55,000 individual changes from 2,700 developers (representing 370 employers) were made to the kernel, equaling 2.8 million lines of code. Corbet called the process 'alive and active.'"
More accessible means more vulnerable.
When you're playing with the Linux kernel developers, you're playing with the Big Boys, Jonathan. These guys are among the best there is. Some of them are getting paid the Big Bucks to work on the kernel, and they can't be distracted by little shits who don't know what they're doing.
You're free to try to attain and maintain their level of excellence. There are many top-notch software developers who can do this. But if you can't, then YOU WILL BE LEFT BEHIND. You will be treated like rubbish. For the professionals don't have time for the amateurs.
Now, it goes a step further when you're working with the FreeBSD, NetBSD and especially OpenBSD communities. They are meritocracies that put even the Linux kernel development community to shame. I mean, guys like Poul-Henning Kamp, Robert Watson, Theo, Wes Peters, Warner Losh are the best there are today. There are, literally less than 10 other people out of the 6 billion people on earth who can compete with them.
This is all Microsoft's fault. They've been causing this trying to bust up the F/OSS community.
Bashing Windows for code bloat are also interesting - but highly hypocritical.
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