Re: Maybe a copyright attack on linux

[Pavel Machek]

On Wed 2018-09-26 11:30:29, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 05:55:18PM +0300, ÐÐÐÑÑÐÐ ÐÐÐÐÑÑÐÐ wrote:
> > Or: "Why you should not use "kill switch" option proposed by smdy to
> > protest against CoC"
> > 
> > Hello.
> > 
> > I'm neither a great software developer nor a lawyer, but I'm not a
> > novice and I'm very annoyed whan I see this:
> > 
> > https://woww.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9iqr3u/linux_developers_threaten_to_pull_kill_switch/
> 
> Dmitry,
> 
> Before you worry overmuch, I suggest you take a look at the people who
> are the claimed "linux developers" who are so "threatening" and see
> how many commits (if any at all) they actually have contributed to he
> Linux sources.
> 
> There are a lot of people who are not members of the Linux kernel
> development community that have been contributing a huge amount of
> noise on both sides of the controversy, both pro- and anti- CoC.
> 
> My view is that this noise is not at all helpful, and they have their
> own agenda which they are trying to promote.  A handy-dandy command if
> you have the git tree for the kernel downloaded is:

Agreed that that noise is not helpful.

But there are still people who don't like CoC "improvements", and find
it very, very strange that such change was merged without any
discussion.

And yes, some of those people pass "git author" test.

> 	git log --author=user@xxxxxxxxxxx

									Pavel
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