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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Linus also wants LMG to be about more than him, and a huge part of the controversy is tied to his decision making power overruling everyone else who says they are working too fast.

He could have appeared, that's fine, but that nobody was able to get him to drop the defensive attitude and just finally say "sorry" without any pity pleas would have been a very strong signal. That they either didn't think to do that, couldn't get Linus to agree or don't have the power to force him also sends a strong signal in the other direction.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

While I do agree, Id say the counterpoint would be that putting Terren out front when all this happened under Linus's watch could have come across as disingenuous.

"Heres our new lightning rod, yell at him" sort of thing. I very much think they are in a no win scenario with most of this.