From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org>,
Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>, Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>,
Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron@waste.org>,
Christer Weinigel <wingel@hog.ctrl-c.liu.se>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The direction linux is taking
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 12:07:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E16LjFC-00010S-00@starship.berlin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011229190600.2556C36DE6@hog.ctrl-c.liu.se> <E16LiPl-00010E-00@starship.berlin> <15410.58874.780380.39621@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <15410.58874.780380.39621@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au>
On January 2, 2002 11:50 am, Neil Brown wrote:
> 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.
Right, it's like the difference between a planned economy and a capitalist
one. People find their own niches in the Linux heirarchy. Except for a few
'official' maintainer positions there is nobody doing any assigning. Surely
there is some irony in this.
> 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.
Yep, we're just lucky ;)
--
Daniel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-02 11:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 127+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-27 15:46 Dana Lacoste
2001-12-27 16:01 ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-27 16:33 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-27 16:30 ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-27 16:53 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-27 17:03 ` Thomas Capricelli
2001-12-27 17:54 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-27 16:57 ` Russell King
2001-12-27 17:11 ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-27 17:25 ` Erik Mouw
2001-12-27 18:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-27 18:24 ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-27 18:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-27 19:16 ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-27 19:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-27 19:46 ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-27 19:57 ` Richard Gooch
2001-12-27 20:07 ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-27 20:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-27 21:13 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2001-12-27 21:18 ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-27 21:28 ` Richard Gooch
2001-12-27 18:37 ` Dave Jones
2001-12-27 19:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-27 20:16 ` Dave Jones
2001-12-27 19:33 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2001-12-27 21:20 ` Legacy Fishtank
2001-12-27 20:10 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-27 20:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-27 20:33 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-27 20:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-27 20:50 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-27 21:43 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2001-12-27 21:53 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-29 17:14 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-12-29 17:27 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-28 2:27 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-27 20:43 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-27 17:52 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-27 17:59 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-12-27 17:38 ` Richard Gooch
2001-12-27 17:55 ` Dave Jones
2001-12-27 17:59 ` Richard Gooch
2001-12-27 18:38 ` Russell King
2001-12-28 4:03 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-12-29 18:02 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-12-29 19:06 ` Christer Weinigel
2001-12-29 19:18 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-12-29 19:37 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-29 19:58 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-12-29 20:04 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-29 20:30 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-12-29 22:09 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-29 22:24 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-12-29 23:01 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-29 22:59 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-12-29 23:09 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-29 23:07 ` Dave Jones
2001-12-29 23:19 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-29 23:24 ` Dave Jones
2001-12-29 23:33 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-12-29 23:41 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2001-12-31 8:51 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-12-29 23:04 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-29 23:29 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-12-29 23:35 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-29 23:59 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-12-30 0:04 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-30 0:25 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-12-29 22:26 ` Dave Jones
2001-12-29 23:02 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-29 20:01 ` Olivier Galibert
2001-12-29 20:04 ` Dave Jones
2002-01-02 15:06 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-12-29 21:03 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-12-29 22:04 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-29 22:58 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-29 23:14 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-29 23:33 ` Dave Jones
2001-12-29 23:38 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-29 23:47 ` Dave Jones
2001-12-29 23:50 ` Atomic Killer Attack Fish
2001-12-30 2:36 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-30 2:49 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-30 3:54 ` Dave Jones
2001-12-30 10:07 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-01 1:32 ` Horst von Brand
2001-12-31 21:24 ` Rob Landley
2002-01-01 1:46 ` Dave Jones
2002-01-02 14:59 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-12-31 8:45 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-12-31 21:33 ` Rob Landley
2002-01-02 10:14 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-02 10:50 ` Neil Brown
2002-01-02 11:07 ` Daniel Phillips [this message]
2001-12-27 18:02 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-27 18:04 ` Richard Gooch
2001-12-27 18:06 ` Dave Jones
2001-12-27 18:17 ` Richard Gooch
2001-12-27 18:41 ` John Alvord
2001-12-27 18:49 ` Russell King
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-07 5:26 Eyal Sohya
2001-12-27 21:24 Dana Lacoste
2001-12-27 20:45 Dana Lacoste
2001-12-27 20:55 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-23 14:18 Eyal Sohya
2001-12-23 14:13 Eyal Sohya
2001-12-23 14:11 Eyal Sohya
2001-12-18 15:18 Dana Lacoste
2001-12-18 18:08 ` John Alvord
2001-12-18 18:42 ` rsweet
2001-12-18 19:50 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-18 14:32 Dana Lacoste
2001-12-18 15:04 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-18 15:09 ` Dead2
2001-12-18 18:37 ` Ken Brownfield
[not found] ` <01121909274103.01840@manta>
2001-12-19 9:56 ` Dead2
2001-12-19 18:06 ` Ken Brownfield
2001-12-19 18:11 ` Ken Brownfield
2001-12-18 5:20 Eyal Sohya
2001-12-18 6:11 ` Craig Christophel
2001-12-18 12:19 ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-18 14:38 ` M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
2001-12-18 15:18 ` David Weinehall
2001-12-18 15:27 ` Momchil Velikov
2001-12-20 6:49 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-12-20 9:30 ` Momchil Velikov
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