So what is going to happen when Linus gets to old to keep on to maintain the kernel ? I know there is a whole team, but he seems to have some kind of executive role in what’s gets released and not.
We gonna fork him into isekai world!
Creating a kernel is hard, Linux itself is not going anywhere.
If all current maintainers suddenly disappear, several corporations, who heavily depend on Linux, will maintain their own forks, so we will get Google kernel for phones, Amazon kernel for datacenters, Valve kernel for gaming, and probably some European initiative kernel for PCs and laptops to do document editing.Sounds like Unix in the end.
And then comes the enshittification, like, ya know, Android.
We’ll just train an AI from his mailing list posts and continue as usual.
Don’t think AI could ever dream up the weird cat fights and shouting matches that happen on those lists
Please, no…
all linux devs just gonna apply to microsoft
What’s the future of you? Linux probably has better chances 🤣
