Serious question, but what is your expectations for linux and all these libraries/dependencies after 20-40+ years when most of old school or current devs are retired? How can anyone guarantee reliable continuity by good actors in all these dependencies?
Steve Jobs said that someone needs to be the keeper and maintainer of the vision. I think that’s the key to the making of anything great over the long run: there needs to be a Benevolent Dictator For Life who has the vision, competence, energy, passion, and caring to consistently iterate the thing well. The best case scenario for a project that loses its BDFL(s) is to hold on maybe as decently as Apple has under Tim…
They already are BDFL for themselves or one other person. The problem is a chronic deficiency of maintainers, which is at the root of this attack.
Your comment implies there is a wide pool of peoplecwho want to do that, along with mythical "someone".
Here is a little story:
There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it.
Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.
Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody’s job.
Everybody thought that Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it.
It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.
- Charles R. Swindoll