Will we all be fucked or is there a Linus 2?

    • andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun
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      8 months ago

      A quick search shows he’s actually two years older than Linus. Though I’m sure there’s plenty of young blood in the community by now.

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        8 months ago

        Not that much, unfortunately.

        The entire process of contributing is a huge pain and makes it rather hard for new people to join.

        • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com
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          8 months ago

          I think this is by design. I once contributed to git, and it required putting a patch in the mailing list. It certainly forced you to be sure your code was spot on.

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            8 months ago

            And it will discourage new users from contributing. Thus, only boomers and corpos will contribute, and over time Linux becomes a de facto corporate owned committee.