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Comment by mlindner

3 years ago

Why does she have so much clout when the latter has been working on this for much longer?

I feel like there's some fanboyism happening here. This person basically just joined the project.

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masklinn  3 years ago

They "just joined the project" and reverse engineered and developed the kernel drivers from relatively little prior work, in just a few months.

From afar they also seem to have a pretty ebullient and infectious personality and to stream a lot (we're talking 10h streams every few days: https://www.youtube.com/@AsahiLina/streams) which is impressive work and dedication.

mort96  3 years ago

What do you mean by "so much clout"..? She's one of the people who decided to work on the Asahi Linux project, and she's writing and streaming about the work she's doing and participating in mailing lists and IRC communities. Is that an unexpected amount of "clout"?

Rufbdbskrufb473  3 years ago
  • piperswe  3 years ago

    [citation needed]

    There's been a lot of speculation about this, but I haven't seen any damning evidence yet.

  • mlindner  3 years ago

    > The anime character is just what Hector started using more often for communicating about the project. It's not a different person.

    Wait really? So they swapped their gender with a voice changer as well? Do you have some evidence of this?

    Though it would certainly explain how a developer who "just joined" somehow was allowed to co-opt the project name without any push back.