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> Best burn here is him flatly telling Eric that he won't be pulling anything from him until he fixes his attitude.

It's not the contributors personal attitude that's in question here but his attitude towards breaking user space, so it's not even ad hominem or anything.

> Eric, I want to make this 1000% clear: there are no user space bugs.

> If it used to work, then user space was clearly doing the right thing.

> The fact that you tried to several times claim it was buggy user space is a serious breach of trust.

I find Linus' wording remarkably polite. Surely you're not suggesting that Linus should accept breakage of user space out of sheer politeness?

Erm, no. I was never suggesting that. Maybe I expressed myself imprecisely, then.

What I meant by attitude is exactly what you meant ~ the nonchalant attitude towards breaking userspace, and thinking that it's okay if no-one notices.

Which is when Linus gets the most pissed of all.

Linus was polite, yes, but he expressed his anger and disappointment in a great way. Feels more brutal than his old style, actually.

> Linus was polite, yes, but he expressed his anger and disappointment in a great way. Feels more brutal than his old style, actually.

Yea, it's even stronger without the swearwords.

> Linus hasn't lost his touch,

I misread that comment of yours as "Linus is still being too rude".

Yes, before he sounded like a moody hacker you had to appease to get your code accepted into his pet project, now he comes across as the head of a multinational corporation who just ended your career.

Except that he hasn't ended Eric's ability to hack on the kernel, which is a big difference.

Basically, Eric might be forced to go through others, who will examine his work for pulling quality.

If Eric can prove that he's changed for the better, Linus may well start pulling from him again.

Linus isn't some evil dictator ~ he's just trying to make a point that quality matters.

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