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chris_wot on Sept 16, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes ...

I wish he had recognised this six years ago:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75

This email alone set the tone for what was acceptable.

It was discussed previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5107495

zeroname on Sept 16, 2018 [–]

> This email alone set the tone for what was acceptable.

Did it really? Did other contributors adopt his "style"? Linus gets a pass because he's Linus, I'm not so sure about other contributors, who presumably have their own reputation to maintain.

chris_wot on Sept 17, 2018 | [–]

For what was acceptable from Linus, sure.

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