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This literally will be the turning point to the slow, painful death of Linux. Great things are forged in conflict, not by committee.

• jraph 8y ago
  If people keep on telling what is wrong firmly, in factual, non-personal and non insulting ways, I cannot imagine why things would go wrong. Conflicts are needed and can be respectful. I'm just a random person on the Internet, but I would trust Linus Torvalds and his experience on allowing these changes. He is clever. From what I've heard from him, he is probably not quitting speaking up his disagreements as soon as possible in any way. And actually, from what I saw, most of his mails are actually kind, factual and respectful. Insult me, or someone else, or show some disrespect, I'll just leave / not come or get in your way because I can't stand it. Simple. Problem is, I'm sure there are competent people out there who's contributions are / would be valuable who are like me. There is no way around it. You can still tell me I am doing something (badly) wrong in an efficient way. You should not hide this fact to me if you feel like I should be made aware about it. Just don't take the time to write that I should be retroactively aborted (well, actually, I personally found this idea incredibly funny, but this is still unwarranted and harmful, especially when abortion is a sensitive subject for many people). edit: Hurting people's feelings is probably unavoidable, but effort can be make to limit it.