They don't like deadlines. "We'll release it when we're good and ready."
Hackers who show management talent are likely to go get lucrative jobs
managing. Managing the hosts of hackers here must be pretty thankless.
The ideal government, according to Mr Worthington, is a benevolent
dictatorship. A benevolent dictator's word is law, but he rules to the
benefit of those whom he rules. Taking advice is, of course, allowed and
good. So is making decisions.
Yes, except that a truly benevolent, tolerant and trusting dictator
won't last long. And one who isn't those things won't be a good ruler.
That, I think, is about how the kernel works.
I would say the kernel development is more like a democracy; developers
"vote" by contributing to a particular kernel (BSD, Darwin, Linux,
Hurd). And so far Linus has proved to be a fine campaigner :-).