We're talking about the same Python community that was so toxic that they caused their BDFL to resign over assignment expressions, right?
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All in all, I'm not sure anything is going to actually change in Linux development Linux doesn't need Linus to continue congealing. But I don't think the article understands *why* Linux doesn't need Linus.
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Linux is (and has been for a while!) a corporate sponsored collective development effort to hoover up donated development time for corporate gain.
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Kamil Choudhury Retweeted Kamil Choudhury
I started this thread about the economics of open source earlier today on an unrelated whim, but it ties into this thread nicely.https://twitter.com/kchoudhu/status/1042662615544156161 …
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Kamil Choudhury Retweeted Bryan Cantrill
I see everyone hyperventilating about how much cash Linus gets from the Linux Foundation. Once you realize Torvalds' role in the Linux ecosystem, the money makes perfect sense.https://twitter.com/bcantrill/status/1042615905052549123 …
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He's not getting paid for engineering excellence. He's getting paid for making everyone forget that they're contributing to corporate welfare for free. I guarantee you the big commercial vendors have looked at the expense of his salary and thought "holy crap, that's CHEAP."
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So that continued investment -- picodollars on its actual return -- will continue no matter. Nothing will change in Linux development.
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I'm not really sure where I'm going with this, other than to say that your engineering hours are probably better spent on communities that value you better. FWIW, I hear
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FreeBSD Foundation changed its Code of Conduct https://www.freebsd.org/internal/code-of-conduct.html … recently, and that caused it to ban some of the core contributors from the project. From what I have heard, that was not pretty. Those contributors then moved to volunteer & donate financially to OpenBSD.
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To be clear: I have no objection whatsoever to Codes of Conduct. Some of my favorite OSS projects (ZeroMQ, Rust) have stringent codes. My objection is to corporate profit taking via the co-option of ostensibly charitable foundations.
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Oh, totally agree with the confusing financial role of the Linux Foundation. They work as a task runner for the big corporations, in some cases.
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