Linus responds to Hellwig - "the pull request you objected to DID NOT TOUCH THE DMA LAYER AT ALL... if you as a maintainer feel that you control who or what can use your code, YOU ARE WRONG."

Nobody in that thread quit because of the way Linus talked. If was because of the way they were talking to each other.

Really? I feel the opposite. I thought Linus was very clear in calling out this maintainer’s bs, and I’d think it’s fair if I’m in the receiving end. I did something unprofessional: essentially tried sabotaging others while hiding behind a lie, that I “don’t care” about something while actually hating it.

Getting called out is not the end of a work relationship. We’re all flawed, and we might not notice our own problems and think we’re doing fine, and such callouts are good for our own development, both as a person and professionally.

But if you’re thin-skinned and think you’re better than others and so you won’t take criticisms from others, welp, can’t help ya there. I’d suggest therapy though.

If you were being an asshole, and someone called you out on it, and you quit over that, I can’t imagine you’d be missed.

Thanks for the thorough explanation!

I'm ambivalent about Rust, I see it mentioned a lot but I've never really dug into it to see why it's so lauded. Is there any particular reason why the pro-rust community don't simply fork the Linux kernel to have a "Rust-Nix" ?

You and I must be reading vastly different emails, then, because this whole thing happened because they weren't working through the issues.

They don't have to be level-headed, they just need to be able to work through issues. Which is happening.

You think the founder of the project abandoning everything he's built is "working through the issues"?

It's better for people who work together to say what's on their mind while having respect for each other, than smiling nicely and thinking badly of each other.

You can say what's on your mind without being disrespectful.