El Reg reports
Just a few days after asking the Linux community to let him take a break, Linus Torvalds has said the project he kicked off 1991 can now get along without him. He was, characteristically, blunt in his recent interview with Bloomberg, saying Linux would survive his death.
"There is no concrete plan of action if I die," [...] "but that would have been a bigger deal 10 or 15 years ago. People would have panicked. Now I think they'd work everything out in a couple of months."
[...] "The technical know-how these days is less," Torvalds says. "It's more about being trusted and being available. Greg [Kroah-Hartman] is the obvious No. 2. He could take it up, and then there are a couple of other people."
Torvalds reiterated his intention to keep [unloading] f-bombs on fellow kernel devs, because his language happens in a "bigger context" and people are "better off" knowing how he feels.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 19 2015, @12:54AM
The reason that project is held in high esteem is in no small part because of the take-no-prisoners attitude of its ramrod [google.com] wrt code quality.
OTOH, as has been mentioned, those projects where a developer/modifier is not bound to pass on the freedom that he received with the source code are viewed with a jaundiced eye by many.
-- gewg_