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Linux's Sole Wireless/WiFi Driver Maintainer Is Stepping Down (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] Tgo_up@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I don't know enough to be able to say how easy it is to take over, but having been done by a single person could mean that no one else has the skills or the interest to do it, or maybe to do it as well as the original person.

I can definitely see why it could make a Linux user worried.