judeancodersfront writes "Jonathan Corbet recently pointed out at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit that the Linux kernel team was getting older and not attracting young developers. This article suggests the Linux kernel no longer has the same appeal to young open source developers that it did 10 years ago. Could it be that the massive code base and declining sense of community from corporate involvement has driven young open source programmers elsewhere?"pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Flinux.slashdot.org%2Fsto ry%2F10%2F04%2F18%2F1557220%2FWhy-Linux-Is-Not-Attracting-Young-Developers" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Why+Linux+Is+Not+Attracting+Young+Deve lopers%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fdlhxba" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/04/18/1557220/Why-Linux-Is-Not-Attracting-Young-Developers?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./ppa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/FBHEYmHdlUksj7qXdGbqhuEqza4/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/FBHEYmHdlUksj7qXdGbqhuEqza4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/FBHEYmHdlUksj7qXdGbqhuEqza4/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/FBHEYmHdlUksj7qXdGbqhuEqza4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/UU_UMXGr914" height="1" width="1"/

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