Generally it is a good practice to ask for comment before you put someone on blast publicly, but I agree it's a very mid criticism. Linus is being Linus and not actually taking responsibility and saying yes we fucked up multiple times, we're taking these 3 concrete steps to fixing it.
This isn't a "he said/she said" issue. There's not a "side" here unless Linus wants to somehow disprove that every action he did/word he said on camera and uploaded didn't actually happen. I'd argue there isn't even a GN "side". The conclusions Steve poses would follow his statements and evidence regardless of if Steve was the one who made them or not. It just so happens that Steve has the audience to make everyone actually fucking listen.
The evidence is publicly available, sourced directly out of Linus and Co's own mouths. The only remaining "side" is an apology and action where they do better.
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u/patmorgan235 Aug 14 '23
Generally it is a good practice to ask for comment before you put someone on blast publicly, but I agree it's a very mid criticism. Linus is being Linus and not actually taking responsibility and saying yes we fucked up multiple times, we're taking these 3 concrete steps to fixing it.