Been my building worry as i have watched the ongoing changes is the Linux ecosystem in recent years.
It feels like thereis a echo chamber happening, where a small group of peope working for maybe 2-3 companies have decided that their vision is the correct vision.
And everyone that says otherwise are haters and fossils.
Well, hundreds of medium and large companies now rely critically on Linux so it was expected that slowly they will cooperate to steer its further evolution.
People do respond that the whole codebase is open source and hence if some really bad change happens the community can always fork from the last known good commit. But this ignores a subtler issue: soon enough so many of the critical subsystems and so many of their contributions will come from individuals directly or indirectly working for corps that if/when those subsystems start adversely impacting the original Linux philosophy, stripping them all out and starting over again would be not much better than abandoning the whole platform.
This is exactly why alternative efforts that seek to maintain working and up-to date alternative init systems, display managers and desktops are critical to the long-term health of Linux.
Linux thrives on multiplicity of choices, which is anathema for corps who always want to consolidate. But that road eventually will weaken Linux for the general community and varied use cases.
It feels like thereis a echo chamber happening, where a small group of peope working for maybe 2-3 companies have decided that their vision is the correct vision.
And everyone that says otherwise are haters and fossils.