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Lasse Collin is not Jia Tan until proven otherwise.
by davikr 3y ago
Lasse Collin is not Jia Tan until proven otherwise.
- robocat 3y agoPassive aggressive accusation. This style of fake doubt is really not appropriate anywhere.
- pavon 3y agoNo, he likely is not. But the patch series includes commits co-developed by Jia Tan, and lists Jia Tan as a maintainer of the kernel module.
- verytrivial 3y agoSpeaking only hypothetically, but two points: 1) No-one has been is proven to "be" anyone in this case. Reputation is OSS is built upon behaviour only, not identity. "Jia Tan" managed to tip the scales by also being helpful. That identity is 99% likely to be a confection. 2) People can do terrible things when strongly encouraged or worse coerced. Including dissolving identity boundaries. The first problem can be 'solved' by using real identities and web of trust but that will NEVER fly in OSS for a multitude of technical and social reasons. The second problem will simply never be solved in any context, OSS or otherwise. Bad actors be bad, yo.