Comment by emptysongglass
10 months ago
I don't understand how abusive bullies like Ted are allowed the privilege of being a senior kernel developer. This feels, in the end, like the fault of Linus, for allowing abusive maintainers to maintain their grip.
Linus was the original abusive bully maintainer, that's how. He's improved his personal use of language, but the culture that he initiated continues unabated. Linux's existing success as a project is used as evidence that it doesn't need any changes to the kernel maintainers' culture.
Up until recently (assuming you believe he's genuinely reformed), Torvalds was also one of those abusive bullies, remember.