On Sat, 29 Dec 2012, Bill Thoen wrote:
if they don't like the BDFL and can't directly challenge him successfully, then they are free to go elsewhere. If the BDFL starts to lose it, or wants to retire or goes over the rainbow, what happens?
The history of gcc is illustrative.The 1997 egcs fork ran an end-around on gcc and became the main branch a couple years later. The mainline team had stalled, so it was demoted (so to speak).
Currently, LLVM and GCC are competing for mindshare, the former offering analytics not available in the latter.
I suspect that if Linus "goes over the rainbow," and Linux starts to become irrelevent, similar things will happen.
-- Paul Heinlein [email protected] 45°38' N, 122°6' W
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