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I think we need fewer people that somehow manage to mangle logic to such a degree that they blame security vulnerabilities on the willingness of some project to state that it's generally preferred to treat each other with some respect.

Linus' insults were always cringeworthy. Sometimes they may have been justified, at other times they were just needlessly hurtful and revealed some sort of weakness on his part. In any case, he always had the power to say no with just that single word.

Log4J doesn't even have a code of conduct in its source tree, though I guess Apache probably has one. You'll get a free Log4j update if you find any instances of it having an impact on the project.




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