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0 pointsthemafia27d ago0 comments

> scathing rebukes

Would you be able to point one out?

> to well-intentioned contributors

This is a system used and relied upon by billions of people around the world. Your intentions, while good, are not material to the problem. Put another way we have an endless supply of people with "good intentions" but we don't enjoy the same largess of people with "good skills."

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vogelke27d ago

https://lwn.net/Articles/343828/ describes Alan Cox trying to fix the TTY layer, being trashed by Linus, and removing himself from the maintainer page.

themafiaOP27d ago

I find it hard to call this a "scathing rebuke:"

https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/28/373

It also didn't just happen out of the blue. It's also true that Alan had already been working on the kernel for 15 years, was an employee of RedHat at the time, and his Wife's health was starting to fail.

If you follow the thread it goes back and forth across quite a few messages with frustration building on both sides with Alan ultimately deciding to step away from a single (and very hairy) subsystem.

nijave27d ago

Not as scathing as some but recent

https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wiLdmz92CCfu2+-9_UrGSn6Pu6...

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