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“Linusgate” over 250 Messages About CoC Complaints Against Linus Torvalds

• hnarn 6y ago
  The top of the page says: > Original story by techrights.org. Published 2020-09-03. And it links to: http://techrights.org/2020/09/03/linus-debconf-linusgate/ http://techrights.org/2020/09/03/linus-debconf-linusgate/ Why not post that?
• MilnerRoute 6y ago
  "Note: The complaints and the event itself happened in 2014."
• JMTQp8lwXL 6y ago
  Expression of political views isn't the problem. Imagine you're in a workplace setting. Would you want Linus as a colleague; would you hire him? Forget hard technical skills for a moment: if you're going to spend 40+ hours a week around colleagues, you need to ensure they are reasonable, kind people for your own mental health, and for the health of your organization.
  • salawat 6y ago
    You aren't around him for 40 hours a week. You're dealing with him only as long as it takes to get changes into the kernel, a software deliverable with an incredible vulnerability to malicious injection of low-quality crippling code without active measures being taken to ensure code quality and architectural conformance. That he was blunt, unequivocal and direct is not a failing on his part, but on the listener's for getting so in a twist they couldn't get the requested fixes in.