> There's a huge difference between being "at the mercy of random emotions their entire life" and deciding that staying in the situation you're in just isn't wo

> There's a huge difference between being "at the mercy of random emotions their entire life" and deciding that staying in the situation you're in just isn't worth it anymore. Right. We weren't specifically taking about Sarah Sharp any more at the point in the conversation that I said that. I would not want to stay in a genuinely hostile work environment, and I would leave. That said, I doubt the LKML is actually a genuinely hostile work environment. The people on LKML do not genuinely wish others harm or genuinely despise them. They just have a culture of being confrontational, harsh, and direct, sometimes with exaggeration, and it works. That is something that Sarah Sharp could not (or wasn't willing to) adapt to, by her own admission. Conversely, there should be no expectation that the community of Linux developers is going to adapt to Sarah Sharp. Nor should they---what they have works very well.