Every piece of code will stop working at some point if you keep working on the software (and the software itself will probably stop being compatible with other softwares if you stop working on it).
And, if it stops working, do we have some reason to conclude that we won’t know why?
If you don’t know why it works in the first place, it’s a pretty good assumption that you won’t know why it doesn’t work, either.
But it works.
Until it doesn’t and you have no idea why.
Do we [people in general] have some reason to conclude that it’ll stop or keep working?
And, if it stops working, do we have some reason to conclude that we won’t know why?
Every piece of code will stop working at some point if you keep working on the software (and the software itself will probably stop being compatible with other softwares if you stop working on it).
If you don’t know why it works in the first place, it’s a pretty good assumption that you won’t know why it doesn’t work, either.
I thought that you were talking about Torvalds’ attitude, given the context.
But until that, it works just fine