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So what do you get for trying to upstream an entirely useless patchset that exists purely as a GPL workaround to enable the ever-proprietary NVIDIA driver? Do you realize that's spitting into the face of the very people trying to drive open-source software across the entire stack?

Greg KH called this trolling, and he isn't one to mindlessly throw around insults.

Besides, I'm confident that Knuth would never say something like that, and Ritchie was not known for such antics, either, to my knowledge.

Dijkstra would probably have said something like that, though he'd have crafted a pithier way of saying it.

They should put participation awards in the Code of Conduct.

That is on point, Thanks.