Holy moly that is a man page of a roast. Linus has gotten extremely good at making himself clear while maintaining his temper just enough.
His argument is applicable to much of FLOSS: your code and contributions you have say over, but you can’t complain about how people used your FLOSS code endpoints downstream. In exchange, any changes you make are the accessors’ responsibility to keep up with.
Holy moly that is a
manpage of a roast. Linus has gotten extremely good at making himself clear while maintaining his temper just enough.His argument is applicable to much of FLOSS: your code and contributions you have say over, but you can’t complain about how people used your FLOSS code endpoints downstream. In exchange, any changes you make are the accessors’ responsibility to keep up with.
Exactly. I loved his irate rants before, but this is much more respectful but just as effective. Keep it up Linus.