LCA Q and A Leads to Abusive Twitter Attack on Torvalds
More on the Kane / ModelviewCulture - Linus Torvald thing, such as it is (meaning I don’t know enough about the real details, real facts to have an informed opinion yet, and there’s a ton of flack in the air…)
A question and answer session at Australia’s national Linux conference has led to a bitter Twitter attack on Linux creator Linus Torvalds by Shanley Kane, founder of tech and culture essay publisher Model View Culture.
Further fallout from the session, held at the conference which took place in Auckland from January 12 to 16, has led to supportive tweets for Torvalds, under the hashtag #IStandWithLinus.
The conference had, as part of its policy, a stipulation that all content at the event should be suitable for a 12-year-old.
The question that caused the attack was asked by Matthew Garrett, a former employee of Red Hat who now works for a cloud company named Nebula. Garrett, a self-styled supporter of women in the open source community, told Torvalds that over the years a number of people, including himself, had stepped back from involvement with the Linux kernel due to the aggressive tone of the LKML mailing list, to which Torvalds was a major contributor.
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