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posted by takyon on Monday October 22 2018, @06:40PM   Printer-friendly
from the reptilian-replacement dept.

ZDNet:

At Open Source Summit Europe in 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.

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.

He's a quick study if it only took him a month to learn how to understand people's emotions and respond appropriately.

See also: Linus Torvalds is back at Linux while GNU's Stallman unveils a "kindness" policy

Previously: Linus Torvalds Taking a Break From Linux Kernel Maintainership
More on Linus Torvalds Taking a Break From Linux Kernel Maintainership
Eric S. Raymond Speaks in Regards to the Linux Code of Conduct [Updated]


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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by NPC-131073 on Tuesday October 23 2018, @01:12AM (6 children)

    by NPC-131073 (7147) on Tuesday October 23 2018, @01:12AM (#752282)

    Orange man good.
    Unemployment is at a 16 year low.
    No more taxes on corporations.
    You have TDS.

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Pav on Tuesday October 23 2018, @01:25AM (5 children)

    by Pav (114) on Tuesday October 23 2018, @01:25AM (#752286)

    Great... The orange man has started a Monopoly game.

    Monopoly was a game originally designed to show what happens with a low tax and low regulation (against monopolies etc...) environment. If people hadn't worked this out from the recent examples (ie. the great depression, and the long depression before that) the game would ALWAYS demonstrate inherent instability. Basically you get snowballing wealth and excitement (for some players) like the roaring 20's, and the "winner" of the game is just the last person to realise the economy has collapsed.

    • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @02:42AM (4 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @02:42AM (#752318)

      At the start of the game, you are sleeping on dirt roads. By the end of the game, you are living in luxurious hotels. I guess you're always free to go back to sleeping in the dirt.

      • (Score: 4, Insightful) by fritsd on Tuesday October 23 2018, @04:20AM (3 children)

        by fritsd (4586) on Tuesday October 23 2018, @04:20AM (#752340) Journal

        At the start of the game, you are sleeping on dirt roads. By the end of the game, one player is living in luxurious hotels and the other ones are bankrupt.

        FTFY.

        It *could* be you who wins.
        Then again, it *could* also be one of the other 7 billion who wins, with you sleeping on dirt roads. What are the odds???? mm.. complicated..

        The winner will always claim it's due to the winner's skill that he/she won.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @02:48PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @02:48PM (#752481)

          I used to play with my neighbor's kids. I'm undefeated and won about 40 games in a row, I'm just lucky like that.

        • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @03:07PM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @03:07PM (#752489)

          Then you didn't understand the parents. If there's nobody left but you on the board, who's going stay in all your hotels? Where will you get continuing rent moneys from? The last player standing has nothing because he has nobody left to offer it to.