Enough with Linus is a hero for his non-apology and fake repentance. It's nauseating. Abusers don't have epiphanies and miraculously transform themselves. Abusers get off on hurting people. The only thing that changes their behavior is sufficient force.
This article has some amazing revelations. Linus' salary at the Linux Foundation is $1.6 million, and the LF confessed that "the foundation... has little control over how Torvalds runs the coding process." In other words, they publicly admit they abdicated their job as employer
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Linus and the hostile kernel culture he created have been chasing away contributors for years. The vast majority of kernel code comes from paid corporate contributors. Obviously, no rational unpaid community contributors will subject themselves to such a terrible environment.
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Even paid contributors avoid writing kernel code as much as possible, but companies have done little to address the problem. IMO the New Yorker piece is too public for the comfort level of Linux Foundation sponsors, and that accounts for this so-called change of heart.
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So, as always, nothing happens until the money talks, and it appears the money is more unhappy about the publicity than the top-to-bottom rot in the kernel dev process.
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It will be wonderful if meaningful change comes from this, like sincere apologies and amends, an end to hero cults, a complete cultural transformation, and finding a better kernel steward than the Linux Foundation. Don't hold your breath. But it could happen.
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Somewhere I saw a tweet about how we just want to contribute to FOSS and tech, instead of having to invest so much of our energy in trying to make it more tolerable. I've stuck it out through sheer stubborness and wanting to make it better, and I often wonder why I bother.
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