A new Mindcraft moment?

I simply don't get the tone of the response. The article is clear that more money needs to go to security and that it needs to be a priority. But one of the ways you can get paid for doing work like this in the community is to establish that you are capable of doing all the work of getting patches submitted by doing just that.

I hope I'm wrong, but a hostile attitude isn't going to help anyone get paid. It's a time like this where something you seem to be an "expert" at and there is a demand for that expertise where you display cooperation and willingness to participate because it's an opportunity. I'm relatively shocked that someone doesn't get that, but I'm older and have seen a few of these opportunities in my career and exploited the hell out of them. You only get a few of these in the average career, and handful at the most.

Sometimes you have to invest in proving your skills, and this is one of those moments. It appears the Kernel community may finally take this security lesson to heart and embrace it, as said in the article as a "mindcraft moment". This is an opportunity for developers that may want to work on Linux security. Some will exploit the opportunity and others will thumb their noses at it. In the end those developers that exploit the opportunity will prosper from it.

I feel old even having to write that.