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Those free passes ended years ago as can be seen by many high-profile removals and resignations (for both corporate policy and social pressure reasons).
by manigandham 6y ago
Those free passes ended years ago as can be seen by many high-profile removals and resignations (for both corporate policy and social pressure reasons).
- pmoriarty 6y ago"Those free passes ended years ago as can be seen by many high-profile removals and resignations (for both corporate policy and social pressure reasons)." Linus still has a job, AFAIK. So does Lennart Poettering. Both have plenty of defenders on HN. That's not to mention people like Peter Thiel and his fans.
- free_rms 6y agoLinus had like one outburst a year in between spending all day every day reading/writing emails. And a bunch of them weren't actually hostile to his team, they just got taken out of context. He'd refer to a userspace program they had to keep from breaking as a "braindead abortion" or something and people would report it as if he said it to/about a kernel developer.
- root_axis 6y agoI think it's fair to say there is less tolerance for certain extremes in public spaces, but practically speaking the meritocratic mentality still rules the day. If you're a well-known public face of an organization you might have to watch what you say in public (but not always, e.g. Elon), but this is the exception not the rule.