Yeah, I completely agree, the guy's a duche, blaiming others for his mistake (assumption, that leads to a shitty PR, which is a mistake).
As I said, if I did that, I would gladly take the heat from Linus. Own up to your mistake. Yes, you do deserve to be called names. You're a maintainer for the most wide spread kernel in the world. "But I don't get paid...". You can quit at any time pal, no one is forcing you to do it.
He basically has one rule and one rule only... we don't break user space... IMO, if you break that one rule, I believe he has the right to be angry. It's not constructive, but I wouldn't hold it against him.
There are a few countries out there that do statistics and reference their salary on a yearly cycle, the US included. Most cointries express the avarage salary on a monthly basis. We don't think in terms how much do I make in a year, we think in terms of how much do I make in month cuz... well, we don't get yearly paychecks, we get monthly paychecks. It's just easier.
If the board refused to do either, the Microsoft executives would move to Plan B: using their company’s considerable leverage—including the billions of dollars it had pledged to OpenAI but had not yet handed over—to help get Altman reappointed as C.E.O., and to reconfigure OpenAI’s governance by replacing board members. Someone close to this conversation told me, “From our perspective, things had been working great, and OpenAI’s board had done something erratic, so we thought, ‘Let’s put some adults in charge and get back to what we had.’ ”
And you're about to trust copilot with your info after them openly saying "we can do whatever the fuck we want" 😂?
Have no idea about those standards to be honest, all sorts of Chinese shit appliances get imported here, I don't think we have a code that regulates that.
When the person doesn't see anything wrong with what they did, yes I belive I have the right to be a cunt about it.