gatekeeping is used as pejorative in those cases, where no gate ought to be. for example in at least one email Linus claims that forbidding C++ in the kernel wa

gatekeeping is used as pejorative in those cases, where no gate ought to be. for example in at least one email Linus claims that forbidding C++ in the kernel was also to exclude C++ developers, whether he was right or wrong that is another case of gatekeeping