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Re:Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off by JoshTriplett on Sunday September 16, 2018 @07:09PM (#18001793)
Take a look at https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/764325/09702eb949176f55/ for the most recent one of many examples of the kinds of problems that this type of behavior led to in the past.

> Popov said that all of that "kills my motivation" to work on Linux.

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Re:Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off by moosingin3space on Sunday September 16, 2018 @07:45PM (#18001988)
Reading this demonstrates perfectly well why "direct" and "brutal" are not at all synonymous. Direct communication wouldn't have required Popov to "extract the technical complaints from them".
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Re:Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off by JoshTriplett on Sunday September 16, 2018 @07:48PM (#18002008)
That's one of the most concise and clear statements of that point I've seen, thank you.
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