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Linus sets his foot down, against the gatekeeping attempts in the kernel (lore.kernel.org)
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So let me be very clear: if you as a maintainer feel that you control who or what can use your code, YOU ARE WRONG.

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[โ€“] robinm@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The issue I see is that Greg did spoke in a way that would not undermind Linux leadership. If Linux was out, I'm sure Greg would have said stuff publicly much earlier.

[โ€“] rowanthorpe@lemmy.ml 2 points 21 hours ago

That makes sense too. I guess it's a very difficult balance to hit, for all concerned. I think a lot of the famous outbursts that happen on LKML are probably an inevitable side-effect of that balancing-act, and of maintainers being stretched in multiple directions.