Why can't the Bitcoin development be more like Linux?

[bluemeanie1]

it surprises many to learn that those protocols you mentioned were not developed in an 'open source' fashion, most of them were developed at DARPA.

-bm

[jbreher]

So do you think modern altcoins are generally going to be better off starting from scratch with their own new codebase rather than forking bitcoin and modifying it?

Well, one thing is for sure - the world already has enough clone-/scam-/inflata-coins. If a new coin project isn't going to do enough innovative stuff that starting from scracth would be preferable, then why bother?

[Brewins]

Linux core: millions of lines of code. Really many different things to take care of(new hardware coming up, security, process scheduling, etc...)

Bitcoin core: some thousands of lines, main challenge is security and make hard for the bad guys do bad things. No worry about hardware, process scheduling, interfaces with component, etc...



For me the order size of the projects(bitcoin core and Linux core) is enough to make impractical for them being developed in similar manner.

[hdbuck]

People

What are we missing?

Time.

Who's turn is it now ?

monayyy ^^