Well, I'm impressed! I never thought I'd see the day. This will be good for Linux and I suspect FOSS in general; Linus' example & opinions carry a lot of weight among newbie programmers & FOSS devs.https://twitter.com/noamcohen/status/1042540518582968320 …
Guess: I suppose, if you were a kernel developer whose performance evals depended on you getting stuff upstreamed, you could have made a fair point that your employer and its industry partners were laundering their hostile management through an intermediary (the Linux Foundation)