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Torvalds Merges DRM CoC Into 4.12 Development Repo

posted by CoolHand on Monday May 08 2017, @04:59PM   
from the alzheimer's-coc dept.

The Mighty Buzzard writes:

Last week, Phoronix broke a story about the kernel DRM group over at FreeDesktop.org submitting a pull request for their code of conduct to be included in the kernel docs for the DRM subsystem. The next day it was merged.

I'm particularly interested in if they think this will keep Linus from saying hurtful things to them over lousy code. Discuss.

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• Meaningless bullshit Meaningless bullshit (Score: 3, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Monday May 08 2017, @05:37PM (1 child)

  by Runaway1956 (2926) on Monday May 08 2017, @05:37PM (#506450) Homepage Journal

  is meaningless bullshit. Freedom of speech, etc, blah blah blah. They aren't going to trap Linus that easily. Linux people pulled a document, la-ti-da - you're not bound to any contract just by reading it. Microsoft and others have gotten away with their terms BS - "if you don't accept these terms, click no, the installation program will terminate, and you can roast in hell" or words to that effect. But, reading a document still doesn't bind you to the terms spelled out in the document.

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• Re:Meaningless bullshit (Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday May 08 2017, @07:16PM

  by kaszz (4211) on Monday May 08 2017, @07:16PM (#506512) Journal

  Trap Linus how? He will probably not hesitate to "you code sucks! - removed" ;-)

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