On Sun, Apr 07, 2024 at 12:40:57PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> zeitgeisteater via Dng said on Sat, 06 Apr 2024 22:59:29 +0000
>
> >There's a risk of serious upending here at the boomer cliff.
> >
> >My foremost thought has been Torvalds no longer around to keep
> >Poettering out. This thread is not improving my outlook.
> >
> >Imagine this future: Current tech stacks maintained by former Twitter
> >staff.
>
> Linus Torvalds is 54, 20 years younger than I. If he keeps control of
> the Linux kernel till he's my age, I'll be safely in my grave (I hope)
> before what you're saying comes to pass.
>
> Theo de Raadt is 55, so the same applies to him.
>
> So I'm hoping that by the time what you predict comes to pass, there
> will be nobody left who cares about simplicity, modularity, POSIX,
> the Unix Philosophy, Linux, or BSD. If a tree falls in the forest miles
> from the nearest person, did it make a sound?
>
> My 3 kids went straight from MS-DOS to Linux, having Linux throughout
> their 4 years of high school. But when they went to college they got
> Windows laptops, and never came back to Linux. When they year me talk
> about Linux and modularity, they roll their eyes as if to say "there
> goes Dad on his soapbox again." Nowadays their whole world is their
> cell phones: Computers are gaming appliances. They won't miss what we
> were privileged to have.

And the cell phones all run either Linux or Unix.
Well hidden, but there they are.

-- hendrik