Re: [ILUG] What if...

From: Paul Kelly (longword at domain indigo.ie)
Date: Wed 05 May 1999 - 16:34:43 IST


"John P. Looney" wrote:
> What would happen if Linus got bored with computers ?
> Would one single other person take over (and give us Coxix ?), or would a
> committee form ?

Are we talking bored or are we talking nasty plane crash? In the former
event, my guess is Linus would nominate an individual - or a very small
number of individuals to take over his role. In the case of the latter,
I think one person would be elected by the kernel mailing list to take
over who would then delegate the various administrative tasks of kernel
development and maintenance.

> Or would it split, say RedHat would maintain their own
> kernel, as would debian, etc....

I can't see that happening myself.

Paul.



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