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Linus Torvalds Back in Charge of Linux

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Re: Linus Torvalds Back in Charge of Linux

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did it? People actually involved in the Linux community seemed fine. It was just internet people shouting "the sky is falling!"

What I read about was Kernel contributors having some friction with the CoC. That got blown up by the press a bit, but it wasn't only the press.

That was just because the CoC was updated at the same time that Linus left. There would have been CoC controversy if Linus had never left.

Re: Linus Torvalds Back in Charge of Linux

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I really wonder what's going to happen to Linux once Linus is gone. I think we've seen now that just a week after he took a break the community started falling apart rapidly.

Kernel fragments into a dizzying array of forks, TrueLinux, RealKernel, Linux Core, LinuxPlus and DogeKernel fight for supremacy on obscure making lists and github issue trackers. The public remains largely unaware. Huge PR battles over which logo to use erupt, somebody sneaks backdoors into the majority of the kernels. Somebody else backdoors the backdoors. Pretty soon over half the code base consists of backdoors a…

I really enjoyed reading this comment. I'm still smiling. Thanks. Now I can start working happy.

carlmr, you issued a nice writing prompt.

Re: Linus Torvalds Back in Charge of Linux

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I really wonder what's going to happen to Linux once Linus is gone. I think we've seen now that just a week after he took a break the community started falling apart rapidly.

Hopefully natural selection will bring us a profile similar to Linus that will take over the job.

...or various specialized kernels... Who know...

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I really wonder what's going to happen to Linux once Linus is gone. I think we've seen now that just a week after he took a break the community started falling apart rapidly.

Once there are enough moderators, community guidelines and steering committees in place it will just write itself.

Re: Linus Torvalds Back in Charge of Linux

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Funny that their code of conduct contains all the standard equal rights no matter what XYZ, while this was never Linus problem. He never lashed out on people because of gender, race or sexual preference. It should simply have said "Don't be an elitistic assh*le aginst people just doing their best."
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