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by geodel 498 days ago
> disagree and commit

It is not some million dollar RSUs getting vested by year end either way. A lot of them working for the love of craft and prestige. If they can just rollover on a technical disagreement then corporate office job is more suitable than open source OS kernel.

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The Linux kernel is most definitely not developed for free by some college student in their bedroom for the most part. It's Intel and Red Hat and similar.

Edit: related email by Hector: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/c5a49bcb-45cf-4295-80...