The current CoC came out from a particularly bad incident with Linus, which he signed off on at the same time as he went into therapy and started working on him

The current CoC came out from a particularly bad incident with Linus, which he signed off on at the same time as he went into therapy and started working on himself. There is a remarkable difference in the before and after. > I'm not arguing that what Kent did was right or wrong, but I would be curious to hear what other ways people work with remote developers who are awful, especially when they work for other companies. You can't just fire them, so I understand the frustration here. They absolutely can "fire" them, by making a decision not to accept any contribution from them.