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Then it's an inefficient method to do so, because along with discouraging these particular people, it may also discourage many other productive and competent de
by throwawaylolx 8y ago
Then it's an inefficient method to do so, because along with discouraging these particular people, it may also discourage many other productive and competent developers who don't wish to condone this sort of abusive leadership.
- coldtea 8y agoPerhaps the intention was to discourage the kind of people that are easily offended from such "abuse".
- throwawaylolx 8y agoUnless there's some demonstrated correlation that this subset of people is likely to be less productive contributing to a project like Linux, then this would just be bad leadership on behalf of Linus who'd exclude potential contributors based on personal whims.