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propaganda, given recent drama?
by jacknews 3y ago
propaganda, given recent drama?
- bhouston 3y agoBut in the end, he doesn't actually say he will rewrite people's patches, instead he said he would give semi-constructive feedback and give them a status update at some point. Thus it actually seems reasonable.
- smegsicle 3y agowhich is probably what would have happened if the blogposter had submitted to the regular mailing list, but he wanted the extra clout of submitting to the security list, and it backfired
- r053bud 3y agoYeah it seemed to me to be almost entirely about getting credit. From the kernel mailing list: https://www.mail-archive.com/linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org/msg221962.html https://www.mail-archive.com/linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org/m... > I will send it to you shortly, but I will switch to my corporate email address. My guess is that they were trying to get some kudos at work. When they didn't get that, they threw a fit in the form of a blog post.
- barryrandall 3y agoIt's context relevant to a recent popular thread about someone who was upset they weren't acknowledged in the way that they would have preferred.