Sharp: Closing a door

Part of the way I see it, there is nobody who has risen to the position to be able to take the position of chief maintainer from Linus. As far as I know, he's said he'd give it up if someone was worthy of carrying the torch. And, well, it *IS* his project, despite all the contributions from hundreds of thousands of people across the world. Putting him out doesn't seem quite right either.

One of the reasons I work for myself is because I'd probably get fired for how I talk about some of the opinions I hold. (Mostly against oracle.)

[07:14:55] <====> ----- there is corruption in the MySQL database, attempts to repair are ongoing. I'm waiting on an update from ++++++ as to how he's getting on with it.
[07:16:26] <Kamilion> too bad postgresql isn't supported more widely :<
[07:17:20] <Kamilion> ever since I converted years ago, I've either not noticed problems, or just had so few that they aren't flagged in memory...
[07:17:47] <Kamilion> versus having to remember far too many hairy days fighting with mysql
[07:18:05] <====> Kamilion: had we known of the w-p issue, steps would have been taken. It's the 1st time I've had a MySQL dbase go sick in over 5 years.
[07:18:09] <Kamilion> and two years of the pain of Oracle Enterprise Database
[07:18:24] <Kamilion> I still cringe when I remember most of that
[07:19:37] <Kamilion> a hundred thousand man-hours of pointless boilerplate because some chump thought that being super extra mega explicit was the better way to go. And then someone else decided later, oop, nope, not good enough, let's do the same thing with a 2 at the end.
[07:19:54] <Kamilion> and thus, was born, the bane of my existence... datetime2
[07:20:22] <Kamilion> a million years of pain, conflict, and torment on the mind who inflicted this upon other human beings
[07:21:33] <Kamilion> just knowing of it's dark power brings sorrow and regret to all who hear of it (because they have to listen to me whinge about it in long-form)

Frankly, I'd much rather remove the influence of commercial software's make-work attitude that has resulted in such overspecified solutions as CORBA, Java, and XML.

To illustrate my point:
Here is a new python script:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import antigravity

And here is a new java project:
https://github.com/making/spring-boot-blank

As a developer, I can demonstrate an opinion that I clearly prefer the former over the latter. There *WILL* be people out there that will demonstrate the opposing opinion.
Arguments will be held, drinks will be thrown, sharp words exchanged, and among men, fisticuffs to the floor or first blood.

I simply cannot imagine a female persona that would equate software development with a barfight. It would not even occur to them as a last thought, let alone a first. The mere association between the two would be a concept as foreign to them as the myriad of uses woolite has for hosiery cleaning to a male persona.

I fear the issue has a far deeper-seated cultural mismatch between participants than the surface appears. The log trapped under fifty feet of murky lake water, itching to catch your anchor. If it's not causing a tangle *right now* it's easily overlooked until it's got you, and just as easily ignored once again after you've gotten untangled.