https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/01/linus-torvalds-zfs-statements-arent-right-heres-the-straight-dope/ … "Linus should avoid authoritative statements about projects he's unfamiliar with."
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What the average person doesn't notice is Linus says these kinds of things for political purposes. People think "grsecurity is garbage" and "don't use ZFS" have some sharp tech knowledge behind them, when really he blurts this stuff out to bully people to do something he wants
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In this case, to get Oracle to relicense their code (irrelevant to end-users who can combine the two on their own, but critical to Linus), in our case to get us to do free work splitting up patches and submitting them to mainline despite them mainly ignoring security for 20 years
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