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  • mhoye but seasonally spookymhoye@cosocial.ca
    Oct 14, 2026, 2:14 PM

    And for Linux as a plausibly community-managed meaningfully open as in open project, that clock is definitely ticking.

    The end of this road is some corporate-funded retirement home for understaffed and underfunded projects once enough of the current devs have aged out without anyone growing into those roles, with private forks at companies that relied on the kernel, also privately relieved there's no need or reason to deal with antediluvian developer processes or bother giving back anymore.

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  • mhoye but seasonally spookymhoye@cosocial.ca
    Oct 14, 2026, 2:23 PM

    Anyway, funny story but remember when the discussion was about The Cathedral and The Bazaar?

    There's a second axis to that graph, and it's ends are labelled "A Community" and "A Cult".

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  • Das Gfrastsacklantifuchs@weirder.earth
    Oct 14, 2026, 3:20 PM

    @mhoye the demographic parallels are spot-on. My quippy take has been for a while that if a project/community/company hasn’t undergone and thrives after a change of top leadership, it’s still immature.

    Sounds like that immaturity will persist into old age for most of the popular things these days.

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