"There are people so important to maintaining code that the internet would break if they were hit by a bus. (Computer security folks literally call this the “bus factor.”) "

https://hbr.org/2017/07/...

What do you all think of these ?
(Personally I think there is fluff to what he says. But there are loop holes to his argument. Not entirely true. And HBR should run stories through experts in field before publishing tho)

A quick search finds the ntf of which that guy who might die is a member so are other developers.. i feel that any software no matter how badly written you can throw money at and get devs who can fix or rewrite it. The article says open source is dangerous but it is the closed source stuff that is harder to maintain when the makers disappear surely?

The article just says that ntp has been developed by one man, and that things (internet related) can brake.

That is true, anything can brake.
It's just an opinionistic article

To keep that important information in one person's head is most likely not how it is. But a team, on the other hand, that all die in a plane crash could cause some serious damage to a company.

If one of the core teams in my company, who owns a service that serves the entire world with a service distributed on about 2000 machines and up to 20M reqs/s, would die in a plane crash the company would take a long time to recover. But one person... hmm sounds weird.