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Getting Called "Paid Actor" by Linus Torvalds
Context On Oct 22 (or Oct 23 depending on where you are), Greg K-H posted a commit to remove a bunch of kernel maintainers citing "various compliance requireme...
This has triggered some concerns on transparency in the Linux kernel community -- rather than referring to exact compliance requirements or state that they are under some type of NDA, Greg (and Linus Torvalds) have chosen to use the very vague wording to justify a big change. Without citation, this sets a very dangerous precedent that Linus, or Greg, or anyone who threatens them with lawsuit, can influence the Linux kernel in unpredictable ways that no one else will be able to have an early eye on. So here is a copy of my arguably short email conversation with Linus Torvalds, in case that happens and Linux Foundation decides to stop even pretending they value community participation.
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