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ELC: Morton and Saxena on working with the kernel community

ELC: Morton and Saxena on working with the kernel community

Posted Apr 21, 2008 18:38 UTC (Mon) by darwish07 (subscriber, #49520)
In reply to: ELC: Morton and Saxena on working with the kernel community by Frej
Parent article: ELC: Morton and Saxena on working with the kernel community

> Even though the consensus is that linus is a benevolent dictator. Which is my claim, google
is my reference ;). Maybe it's more of an an oligarchy today with many more maintainers.

In any project with large number of humans, there *must* be a final authority. Without that
authority, people will just go in endless debates and *stop* doing the useful work. 

There's a fine line between dictatorship and 'final authority' but I think Linus is walking on
that line very well.




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