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Linus sets his foot down, against the gatekeeping attempts in the kernel (lore.kernel.org)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by snaggen to c/rust
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So let me be very clear: if you as a maintainer feel that you control who or what can use your code, YOU ARE WRONG.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

I think it's a positive cycle. There's unfortunately a lot of emotion in kernel maintenance, and this attacks a huge part of it. Subsystem maintainers are maintainers, they don't own the project, they just make sure the code stays in a good state. In other words, they serve the users.