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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)." Linu
by 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.