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Un interesting opinion piece published in informationweek reveals a reality that many programmers are living in recent years: Linux, the operating system that was for many an excellent project to participate in, has lost interest.
Young developers see Linux as a mammoth project that is developed by programmers hired by companies, and does not attract the new generations, who prefer to orient their steps to other more striking platforms such as Apple's iPhone. 🙁 Sniff… sniff… |
The conferences that have been held at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit in San Francisco a few days ago served to offer a very interesting perspective of the present and future of the operating system, but they also offered another reality: those who are mainly responsible for the kernel and the rest of the system components are getting older.
Greg Kroah-Hartman, who is responsible for one of the core subsystems, noted that “relays at the highest levels are not happening. We all continue where we were«. Another one of the Linux gurus, Andre Morton, also admitted it: "Yeah, we are getting older, and some of us are starting to get a little tired. I don't see people jumping with enthusiasm when it comes to working on these issues as they were before«.
Indeed, the state and maturity of Linux has made collaborating on the project is no longer seen as something interesting by the new generations of programmers.
As one user points out in an interesting opinion on his blog, Linux has gotten too big, and «one of the most boring Open Source projects in existence“And the same is true of GNOME and KDE, the desktop environments that are also very established and whose main developers they continue doing the same as practically 10 years agowhen such projects did attract a lot of young programmers.
These young programmers are no longer as enthusiastic about collaborating on improvements to the kernel and other system components, preferring instead to participate in other, more engaging and "exciting" Open Source projects. In fact, many others prefer to go to new fields such as development for iPhone and other mobile platforms, where they can also have an economic reward if they put a price on their creations.
“One of the reasons Open Source has offered in the last 10 years is that it works well for small projects. It is much more interesting to work in groups of 1-5 people and have a lead role in developing software that helps people, than not being the guy who ships the 104.727 webcam driver. "
And he is not missing part of reason.
Source: Very Computer Pro
I really think it's because of how bad things are with the job. 10 years ago you had a job and you could pay your rent and your car and you didn't have to try to monetize each of our acts. When employment improves, many of us will have a stable source of income, and we will be able to dedicate our free time to collaborating with those projects that we use every day. Good article, like so many others!