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  • Depends on where on the scale between legit and scam your business is. I see three options:

    • 1, It’s a scam: Terrible news for you, but good news for everyone else. In that case, your wellbeing is a sacrifice we’re willing to make.
    • 2, It’s legit: Then it’s even good news for you, as it takes away the shady competition.
    • 3, It’s legit, but still treated as if you’re the bad guy: That’s the interesting point. If that is the case, can you show where the ban fails?






  • Spzi@lemm.eetolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldLinus does not fuck around
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    10 months ago

    That’s kind of two of my main points:

    1. Treat your volunteers well, or why should they continue volunteering?
    2. Kernel maintainers have plenty of other opportunities.

    I don’t know if they are volunteering or being paid. The other person said they are being paid.

    Either way, no one deserves being talked down to like that, even if they made a mistake. It’s a matter of respect and self-respect. And as a skilled person like a kernel developer, it should be trivially easy to find other work in a more appropriate environment.

    That being said, maybe I’m missing something. Torvalds has been known to be like that for a long time (although that seems to be over now). And still, Linux has been developed over decades. So apparently, skilled people flocked around Torvalds, or maybe rather his project. Not entirely sure why, but I’m taking it as a hint I might be missing something.







  • Oh, alright. Seems you would have been fine if I had written “Some people” instead of just “People”. As a non-native speaker, I’m not sure wether “People” actually means some or all people.

    Like when I say “People like the new iPhone”, are you sure that means all people like it? Or can that sentence be said when a large number likes it, although some don’t, and the overall majority didn’t even consider to buy it?

    Either way, I could have clarified with a short emphasis, yes.