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

  • andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    38
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year 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.

    • AggressivelyPassive@feddit.de
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      14
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year 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
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        1 year 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.

        • AggressivelyPassive@feddit.de
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          8
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          1 year 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.