Syd Hancock syd@toufol.com writes:
Cringely's predictions:
| 5) The SCO debacle has created a crisis within the Linux | community. They pretend that it hasn't, but it has. This will come | to a head in 2004 with either the development of a new | organizational structure for Linux or the start of its | demise. Linux has to grow or die, and the direction it takes will | be determined in 2004.
I think the assertions here need justification.
* What exactly is the crisis? SCO haven't caused Linux development to stop. They've not caused features to be removed. They've not bankrupted Linus. As Cringely's following point suggested it'll probably do none of these things in the future either. So what's the problem?
* Why does Linux need a "new organizational structure"? It seems to be doing pretty well as it is, actually.
* Why does Linux need to "grow or die"? It's not a dot-com bubble company or an empire founded on conquest. It does need to adapt to changing conditions (e.g. new hardware) if it is not to eventually fall into the domain of retrocomputing but I don't think that's really "growth".