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Re:A Programming Language Underdog by interfixus on Saturday September 22, 2018 @10:47AM (#18046172)
Re:A Programming Language Underdog by tzs on Saturday September 22, 2018 @10:52AM (#18046192)
Submitted by the same person who is trying to troll Linus. Looks like the troll is happy with the result:

> Thank you so much, it's so much more inclusive now. My rabbi will be pleased.

Re:A Programming Language Underdog by interfixus on Saturday September 22, 2018 @10:58AM (#18046222)
Trouble is the commit is there: The thing has been taken at face value.

This galloping madness is beginning to scare the shit out of me.

Re:A Programming Language Underdog by dTal on Sunday September 23, 2018 @01:58PM (#18052271)
No it hasn't.

>We realise it's a troll, but we had an internal discussion and we decided that we wanted to remove these anyway. We're not being terrorised into change just because a (bad) troll appeared, they just happened to bring attention to a real issue.

Re:A Programming Language Underdog by interfixus on Sunday September 23, 2018 @02:16PM (#18052363)
"We didn't do it because the troll said so, but because the troll said so".

Either way, the decision is ... whichever derogative may not yet be blacklisted, sorry, interdicted.