Linus Torvalds is Back in Charge of Linux (zdnet.com)

At Open Source Summit Europe in Edinburgh, Scotland, Linus Torvalds is meeting with Linux's top 40 or so developers at the Maintainers' Summit. This is his first step back in taking over Linux's reins. From a report: A little over a month ago, Torvalds stepped back from running the Linux development community. In a note to the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML), Torvalds said, "I need to change some of my behavior, and I want to apologize to the people that my personal behavior hurt and possibly drove away from kernel development entirely. I am going to take time off and get some assistance on how to understand people's emotions and respond appropriately." That time is over. Torvalds is back.

Whether he'll be a kinder and gentler Torvalds remains to be seen. In the Linux 4.19 announcement, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linux's temporary leader and maintainer of the stable branch, wrote: "Linus, I'm handing the kernel tree back to you. You can have the joy of dealing with the merge window :)"

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Re:Why you are getting resistance

[robsku]

No small part of it is because the left has adopted a view that "marginalized people" are effectively entitled to be disruptive, toxic, etc. Because discrimination(tm).

BS.

2. "Marginalized people" cannot be guilty of oppressing "non-marginalized people" no matter how they behave.

This.

is. just. bullshit. claim. by. those. who. don't. want. to. give. their. entitlement. to. bully. any. and. every. minority. they. feel. like. they. don't. like.

Re:Step 1: Remove the Code of Cancer.

[Mashiki]

Reminds me of McCarthyism - whatever was really there was dwarfed by the paranoia, the fear that SJWs are everywhere and anyone could be one.

Except McCarthy was right. It's not that the paranoia of SJW's are everywhere. They declare themselves loudly that they're such, that they're "fighting for social justice". It's the fact that they're having a negative impact on society and people have had enough. This isn't paranoia, when the self-proclaimed actors proudly cheer their actions and fucking people over. So, tell me. Which group is telling people that if you don't want illegals in your country you're: "Racist, sexist, homophobic, misandrist, xenophobes."

You can look at any business in the west and see how SJW's and their various allies have reduced the chances of female employment(you can thank metoo) for that one. You can see the destruction of historical monuments pushed by them. You can see their attempts to reduce free speech. You can see how they align themselves in support of violent actions against people who don't agree with their ideology. You can see them protesting VoterID laws, lawful immigration, cheering the banning of books.

Hey, you want to believe that they're nobodies by all means. But it's far harder to believe when they're in charge of the education system and telling teachers not to teach "How to kill a mockingbird" because racism.

Re:Step 1: Remove the Code of Cancer.

[AmiMoJo]

SJW are threatening you and and your family for what they think you SHOULD say. Do you want to talk about actual emotional trauma, how about walking around terrified under constant threat of having your name and family being equated to the most genocidal monsters in human history? Every moment of every day any minor slip of SOMEONE ELSES inner thoughts and whimsical feelings potentially able to destroy your career and ability to provide for your family.

So, once again, for the Nth time, where is the evidence of this? What evidence do we have that Linus was threatened, or that in fact anyone was threatened in relation to this?

This sounds like the worst kind of propaganda, the fear inducing hidden threat that makes you paranoid, terrified that literally anyone could be an SJW and out to get you, and there is nothing you can do about it. Prove me wrong, by all means.