Lice I saw a video where he said that for one merge window it's typically about 12000 commits for him, and in general on the first week he like, works from morning to evening doing merges and I wonder, who's gonna do that if he leaves? has it already been decided?
Also incase that there is no will or like protocol for what happens next shouldn't it?
I mean there should be some legal issues regarding copyright, ownership in general and what not I doubt that whoever wants can be the head of the linux kernel but nodody tried because people are respecting other people's work and all trust linus (dont get me wrong what I mean is that in our cursed reality if there was no legal issue hijacking the leadership of the kernel there certainly would people that would have done it over )
So I think it would be prudent just from an insurance perspective to create a protocol on who's gonna take the wheel or who's gonna decide who's gonna take over because you never know accidents and stuff like that happen. It doesn't matter if he is absolutely healthy right now, it would a shame to stop his legacy (or being forced to fork Linux to, I don't know, "frinux" because of legal issues not allowing the community to take over after his death, I doubt he would want that either) .
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