Alan Cox

Posted Jul 19, 2013 10:30 UTC (Fri) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582)
In reply to: Alan Cox by dougg
Parent article: On kernel mailing list behavior

Very good example. LWN's report from 2009 is here. It shows that it's not just a problem for newbies: even the most senior developers (Alan was once seen as second only to Linus) can take only so much of Linus's flaming.

Alan Cox

Posted Jul 19, 2013 18:23 UTC (Fri) by jonabbey (guest, #2736) [Link]

I thought that exchange was a good reference point for this discussion as well.

I didn't see Linus flaming Alan in any kind of abusive way, but he was certainly being demanding. Alan decided he had had enough of that, and went away, and he had every right to, but I didn't see anything abusive.