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From: iiitac@uk.ac.swan.pyr (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux
Message-ID: <1994Apr5.120507.6543@uk.ac.swan.pyr>
Organization: Swansea University College
References: <JKH.94Apr4025000@whisker.hubbard.ie>> <MAGNUS.94Apr4201634@haukugle.ii.uib.no> <Cnryws.7vo@hippo.ru.ac.za>
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 12:05:07 GMT
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In article <Cnryws.7vo@hippo.ru.ac.za> csgr@cs.ru.ac.za writes:
>In <MAGNUS.94Apr4201634@haukugle.ii.uib.no> magnus@haukugle.ii.uib.no (Magnus Y Alvestad) writes:
>>Who needs a core team?
>
>The idea of having a "core team" is basically a good one - these are
>the people who coordinate the direction which the OS is taking, build
Linux definitely has a 'core' of developers, they just have a formal
'core team' name. You only need to look at the SCSI drivers, the net drivers,
the networking, ext2fs etc to see each module has a core person or team, or
in some cases has passed down through such teams. 
Unlike the way the BSD organisation seems to be, it is a core per major
module with a Linus on the top of the pile.

Alan