Right, it's like the difference between a planned economy and a capitalist
one. People find their own niches in the Linux heirarchy. Except for a few
'official' maintainer positions there is nobody doing any assigning. Surely
there is some irony in this.
> Sure people can be replaced, but it
> might take a while. A subsystem might be unmaintained (or
> under-maintained) for a while until some sucker^Wdeveloper puts their
> hand up. That isn't a situation that a "fortune 500 bureaucracy"
> would be able to tolerate. But we seem to cope.
Yep, we're just lucky ;)
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