Sure, disbanding meritocracy for the sake of identity politics will eventually means code quality rots. Eventually supply and demand will gift us viable alternatives growing from the disaster that is Linux. Many of the original devs are just as unhappy as us because of this change, I don't see why they wouldn't be interested to work on something else.
States which has switched from a free-market economy to socializing, work morale only stagnates over a long period of time. So to jump ship just yet would be reactionary and probably not necessary.
Wyatt Richardson
Asses and elbows browses Zig Forums?
Brayden Long
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Colton Lewis
implying Zig Forumstards will make anything other than alternative logos
Andrew Cooper
There is not enough demand and not enough supply for that. The entire Linux family never went past 5% marketshare for a reason, even apple did better becasue there's demand for status symbols.
Oliver King
Trips confirm
Jackson Walker
Exactly, if only we can market it to the general public... then we would hit jackpot
James Peterson
Big amounts of infrastructure depends on the Linux kernel and the ecosystem built around it works like it should. Especially in the IoT sphere where size and efficiency is valued.
I personally doubt the tech giants on the board of the Linux foundation, who now have invested money in the kernel succeeding, would shoot themselves in the foot this way.
If you ask me we face three possible scenarios:
1. Tech companies who rely on the kernel recognize the potential danger of leaving control of the kernel to a group of mentally unstable creatures. They accept the covenant "officially" but doesn't actually follow it. Kernel development continues as usual.
2. The kernel for some reason gets it's decline accelerated and people have to quickly jump ship, or resort to something more along the lines of scenario one. Investments and work-hours will be shifted somewhere else.
3. Worst case scenario is that everyone except minor "extremist" groups like ourselves don't give a frick and accept their lower kernel standards. The ones who are unhappy either lack motivation or don't have the ability to contribute to a fork. This is theoretically what we have to prepare for. If we want to regain some control back to the FLOSS sphere, I suggest we all start getting proficient in C and read some books relevant to kernel design. The best would probably be to contribute to a existing project. We can't just sit and wait for the next guy to do the work for us.
Reddit spacing done for easier readability
Zachary Cox
This is a meme for newfags It's called "spacing"
Hudson Hughes
The trannies and SJWs are just useful idiots. They're dumbfucks and always get disposted of at the end by the. The ones actually taking control over Linux are Redhat, Google, Intel, and so on. Look how quickly they signed off on Linus' "decision" to enforce this CoC, even though it goes against everything he has done in the past. Now when you look at the timeline of these fuckers recently adding the weak crypto shit for their IoT devices, and the recent x86 bugs, you can start to see why they'd want to get Linus out of the picture entirely. Because they don't want any credible opposition to point out their subversion of Linux, they want to do it on the down-low, like the cianiggers they are. If you think systemd is bad, just wait until these fuckers get going!
