I'm not going to link directly to the New Yorker, and they seem to have poisoned their html so archive dot is chokes on it. But I read this as confirmation that Linus got blackmailed.pic.twitter.com/acyBdiLvVm
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<partial devil's advocate> hmm. what's your thinking on, if people incl maybe media know about whatever it is they're holding over him, why this time, for the first time ever, this is how it's playing out, instead of just a scoop and a viral public execution? </>
Because getting him to bend the knee and hand over the keys is higher-value than just destroying him and leaving his policies in place?
This is what they wanted: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8a104f8b5867c682d994ffa7a74093c54469c11f … Look whose CoC got adopted, and look who signed off (FB and Intel)
Before the New Yorker article I thought it was plausible that he'd had a Come to Jesus moment, but that paragraph I screenshot says his back was up against the wall and he folded.
gotcha. so yeah my *technical* objection still stands; your hypothetical is the same as mine. it's one of those times where occam's and hanlon's seem to somehow conflict of course this is why i created my razor so "sufficiently indistinguishable from conspiracy" it is
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