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Re:Abuse is indefensible by cholantesh on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @09:57AM (#10506965)
I'd go even further - kernel development isn't just 'not for everyone', it's for very few. Relatively speaking, how many people are competent enough to contribute to the kernel? Those that even make the attempt are doing so voluntarily - if the reward from that is to be entreated with a hyperbolic rant, why would they bother going any further?
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Re:Abuse is indefensible by tptacek on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @11:41AM (#10507733)
You all realize that this argument cuts both ways, and probably even cuts against Linus harder, right?

By the time Linus is ranting at someone at LKML, the person he's ranting at has --- statistically, at least --- already qualified themselves as especially competent. These people aren't arguing over Rails template languages.

I'm coming to realize that the sociology of Linus LKML rants is pretty fascinating.

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