A morality cabal of Debian users tried to knife Torvalds
A morality cabal of Debian users had a go at censoring IT’s Mr Sweary Linus Torvalds in 2014 according to a leak of documents from Debian-private.
The documents show a group of Linux developers who were so shocked that Torvalds swore at a conference they were attempting to use the Debian code-of-conduct to get him ostracised from the Linux mother church.
What appears to have got their knickers in a twist was that: “Linus described the Free Software Foundation as `bigots.’"
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Since when are six-year-old comments by Torvalds newsworthy?
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