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> Its not just women that are being put off. I'm a man, and when I worked for an IHV, I dreaded every interaction with the Linux kernel community due to the ton
by amyjess 11y ago
> Its not just women that are being put off. I'm a man, and when I worked for an IHV, I dreaded every interaction with the Linux kernel community due to the tone of the interactions.
It's stuff like this that also drove out Con Kolivas, who was a fairly well-known kernel hacker before he got sick of it all and quit.
One of the things that drove him out was that other kernel developers cast doubt on his loyalty the project, and in one case refused to merge his patches, because his day job isn't a tech job (he's a doctor).
He eventually started kernel hacking again, but nowadays he just makes his own patchset that he distributes himself, and he refuses to submit anything to the LKML or have anything to do with mainline.
- w8rbt 11y agoI used to use his scheduler patches. This was many years ago. He seemed reasonable and he knew what he was doing. I only knew him through email (never met him in person), but I hated to see him go. I think others continued/improved upon his initial work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con_Kolivas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con_Kolivas Also, Alan Cox left kernel development in 2009 for similar reasons. http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/07/29/1925224/Alan-Cox-Quits-As-Linux-TTY-Maintainer-mdash-Ive-Had-Enough http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/07/29/1925224/Alan-Cox-Qu...