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Re:I got robbed of my first kernel contribution by ljm on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @01:30PM (#37678089)
I would hope the author of the post corrects this, "I wanted to fix it differently" is not even close to "I like my version better."

It's still a bit crap to not get proper credit, but it's not fair to put words into someone else's mouth either. The author isn't paraphrasing, he's sharing the story he's told himself after being upset.

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Re:I got robbed of my first kernel contribution by nolist_policy on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @02:13PM (#37678790)
And the maintainers reply already includes the proposed patch, with:

> Reported-by: Ariel Miculas <...>

Ariel could just have pressed "reply" in his email client and pointed this out if he felt wronged.

But no, instead he is writing a blog post one year later misrepresenting the maintainer and the Linux project.

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