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"Knows of Linus Tech Tips but hasn't watched it": kalm
"Read the latest drama and how Linus is a horrible person": panik
"It's not Linus Torvalds": kalm
Okay honest confession... I read it enough to make sure it wasn't Torvalds.
Bro. The shit he talked to people on all those Linux kernel mailing lists is in a whole different league. There was an entire subreddit dedicated to all the Torvalds rants. He wouldn't survive a day working as a CEO.
Also he and Stallman both had to back off or resign in a way.
A actually Linus Torvalds already got accusations of sexism and toxic behavior
Letting this stand this way is close to misinformation.
Linus Torvalds got accused of sexism, as to be expected with a person so public, but nobody ever proved anything. In contrast he shows the opposite of sexist behaviour nearly every day by working with all people equally on the Linux kernel. Also his daughter Patricia is a feminist and he fully supports her. Honestly I am surprised that with so much of his communication being public (Mailing list discussions) nobody found any piece which sounds outright sexist. Not even a bad joke. He is a role model regarding this.
His toxic behavior is another thing. And also up for discussion I think. Firm words to discourage bad behavior regarding contributions to the kernel. He went to far at times, recognized it, and improved. He still has the stance to not use overly polite words to play around any bad statements, which many think is correct to improve communication and finding a common ground instead of secretly harboring ever greater dissent. Many discussions by many qualified people on this in the net.
These e-mails are public where he's quite toxic towards developers.
But that was a few years ago by now and it's been handled.
Afaik, this Maddison case started in 2021. She now came to light with all the accusations but what happened did happened in 2021. My guess is whatever she was complaining about was already solved since they got a shitload of new management people to handle those cases.
Might be, don't know. Depends on how seriously it was taken back then. If they dismissed it, then no changes had to have been made. Since Madison quit anyway there was no urgency to do anything.