@moralrecordings @davidgerard real strong “old men yell at those goddamn kids to get off their lawn” vibes from that whole thing.
Open source projects do definitely need to think about succession and passing projects on to the next generation, but I’m pretty sure “fuck you all, piss off” isn’t going to go down in history as one of the better plans for this.
@moralrecordings @wordshaper @davidgerard this is insane!
As is this:
The requirement to add Assisted-by tags to patches created with LLMs will be removed
Linux is lost, this is good as unrecoverable.
1995: Golly I sure do admire this #Torvalds fellow
2001: Oh
2007: Ohhh
2012: Dear me
2018: So Linus is ... apologizing? And ... taking a leave of absence? In order to get ... therapy? Wow I genuinely admire him again!
2020: I mean he could have just told us all to kiss his ass instead of going to therapy. And he still could at any time just say "everybody fuck off, you can fork it!" Except that's obviously totally impossible
2026: Welp, good to know some things never really change