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> but I’m also glad they didn’t buy into the code of conduct saga that waved over FreeBSD and eventually Linux. I'm a bit out of the loop, but I thought it sta

• dijit 7y ago
  It’s fair to be out of the loop. I wish I was, because dissenting for any reason is seen as being a villain or a troll. For a little context though the freebsd code of conduct was instantiated in 14th February 2018 - the Linux one was altered to be the current one on September 21st of the same year (which is when the Linux CoC controversy began).
• calcifer 7y ago
  He was quite abusive actually, not "abusive".
  • derefr 7y ago
    You seem to be interpreting the parent as using scare-quotes to disagree with the idea that Linus's behavior was "abusive." But the parent comment was, as far as I can tell, intending to use regular quotation marks, in the way a journalist does (and as I just did)—to mention what someone else said, without endorsing or denying that opinion as their own, in order to avoid an argument. (Personally, I think more things people describe should be put in quotation marks. A lot of Internet arguments are started by people trying to argue others out of beliefs they don't actually personally have.)
    • aaronbrethorst 7y ago
      Quotes only work with attribution