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Whatever it is, Hellwig has used his freetime to maintain these modules. Usually that means that he has seen some value in that. Maybe he liked it. Maybe he hop
by nicce 2y ago
Whatever it is, Hellwig has used his freetime to maintain these modules. Usually that means that he has seen some value in that. Maybe he liked it. Maybe he hoped that he was doing some good and beneficial.
Now this change caused the total net value become negative. It was perfectly okay to express his opinions. Opinion was disliked and it is pretty okay, while sad, that he stopped maintaining it. Nothing to do with dictating.
- toyg 2y ago> Maybe he liked it. Maybe he got a lot of professional mileage from being "the" Christoph Hellwig, Linux DMA maintainer. Independent consultants need publicity.
- subsistence234 2y agoFor his day job he's regularly been coding in Rust since ~2020.
- toyg 2y agoThat's irrelevant, we're talking reputation.