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From: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 21:50:34 +1100 (EST)
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Subject: Re: The direction linux is taking
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On Wednesday January 2, phillips@bonn-fries.net wrote:
> 
> Yes, that's all +5 insightful, except... what makes you think any one of the 
> Linux core hackers is irreplaceable?  I know you didn't say that, but you
> did say 'single point of failure', and it amounts to the same thing.
> 

I think that the difference is that there is no planning to make sure
that no-one is irreplaceable.  Sure people can be replaced, but it
might take a while.  A subsystem might be unmaintained (or
under-maintained) for a while until some sucker^Wdeveloper puts their
hand up.  That isn't a situation that a "fortune 500 bureaucracy"
would be able to tolerate.  But we seem to cope.

NeilBrown
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