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Re:Hacker News is depressing by winter_blue on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @05:51PM (#5747158)
Alan Cox, once considered second-in-command after Linus; left Linux development after receiving criticism from Torvalds.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Cox

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Re:Hacker News is depressing by winter_blue on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @11:51PM (#5748776)
Not to mention, it was for a very similar reason that Linus exploded on Alan -- kernel changes breaking user space applications.

Honestly though, looking at the discussion, I have to admit that some of these userland apps did do wildly ridiculous stuff that sorta almost relied on certain kernel "flaws" -- so IMO they deserve to be broken (perhaps?)

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