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Take a look at https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/764325/09702eb949176f55/ for the most recent one of many examples of the kinds of problems that this type of behavior led to in the past.

> Popov said that all of that "kills my motivation" to work on Linux.

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Reading this demonstrates perfectly well why "direct" and "brutal" are not at all synonymous. Direct communication wouldn't have required Popov to "extract the technical complaints from them".

That's one of the most concise and clear statements of that point I've seen, thank you.

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