Rumours of Linux death greatly exaggerated

Boy, this is a lesson of ‘be careful what you write’! It looks like one writer was called out on what some considered to be a little overboard.

We had more letters about this article than any other this week. Practically (but not quite) more than all the rest combined. Boy oh boy did you get ticked off about the “Setback for Linux” story. Plenty of the letters just ranted, variously accusing the writer and us of spouting FUD, and so on.

However, some correspondents had more to add to the debate, so here are the most interesting specimens in a very large haul:

I’m not sure that losing bitkeeper is a setback for Linux in the long term.

In the short term, of course, time that Linus spends working on git is time not spent getting new kernel releases out the door (though development may not be hindered much, since Linus doesn’t do much of that, anymore). [Read the rest]