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Story: Torvalds gets tough on kernel coders

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This is one of the problems with open source. Microsoft developers probably have conversations like this all the time, but they are generally kept private (though occassionally leaked by disgruntled employees!).

I wonder whether as open source gets more commercial, more and more conversations will be held off public mailing lists. I expect a lot of this already happens as open source companies will not want to damage their reputation by making unprofessional comments publicly.

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