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Following the R4L debacle "you are cancer, you are the problem, we are the thin blue line", another maintainer steps down from the Linux Kernel

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[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 18 points 1 week ago (19 children)

Yup. But based on Linus' response to marcan's concerns, it sounds like Linus just wants to ignore the problems.

[–] proton_lynx@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (12 children)

I think that Linus' concerns about posting on social media is completely valid, but I was pretty disappointed that he didn't address Hellwig going full retard. Marcan dealt with this like a spoiled child in the end, but he was 100% right.

If you want to make Linux impossible to maintain due to a cross-language codebase, do that in your driver so that you have to do it instead of spreading this cancer to core subsystems. (where this cancer explicitly is a cross-language codebase and not Rust itself, just to escape the flameware brigade).

This should be worth a Linus rant in my honest opinion.

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