What people often forget is in the corporate world, you can always escalate to the person's manager if they refuse to listen. In a volunteer project, that's no

What people often forget is in the corporate world, you can always escalate to the person's manager if they refuse to listen. In a volunteer project, that's not an option. How many times you say, "I guess you didn't understand what I said; in this project it's not acceptable to sacrifice the user for developer convenience" before you "raise your voice. Some people seem to think the only acceptable answer is "never". (And if you do, there is a zero-tolerance policy where you kick out the developer in question, even if he is the founder.) That's not the Linux kernel, for better or for worse.