[r14c]

I'm 33 and I have a competitive skill set that includes osdev, and application programming, among other things.

I'm just not interested in contributing to Linux. I understand that quality matters and that Linux is an important piece of software, but I'd rather spend my time studying/contributing to seL4 and Genode or Plan9 or Inferno, one of those silly alt-kernel operating systems, or even Haiku. Even for Linux projects like NixOS, I'm more interested in ports to a BSD than working on the main project.

I've seen similar sentiments among a lot of people my age and younger, the problem isn't that we're stupid, we just have different ideas about what's worth contributing to.