At least Linus had the common sense not to adopt the external witch hunt nonsense Corey put into CoC (which really is all about banning people who disagree with trannies).
That's really the crucial issue for me. I don't mind a set of rules that say "don't screech at fellow contributors" (although the trannies still try to sneak in dubious bureaucratic rules that they can exploit). Requiring people to be polite is fine.
But tacking on a way to try and police people's behavior outside of the project is what's pissing people off. They keep trying to do cartwheels to dodge this very important point.
I don't disagree he's a complete exceptional individual, but he's done quite a lot of coding even up to modern times compared so, say, RMS who has mostly given it up. Fetchmail is kind of legacy these days, but he's the lead of author of gpsd which is very widely used. He even kind of keeps up on programming trends (he's less of a grognard than I am, where I'm happy with C/C++ and Perl.)
Heh, well, RMS is mostly an ideologue too anyway.
I didn't know about gpsd, but I'm looking through it. esr has had about 27 commits on gpsd in 2017+2018 together. Heh, there was also the boondoggle that was CML2.
I don't know, just the volume of writing and sperging he does, compared to how much coding he does, throws me off.
To be fair, I should correct myself, he's a substantially better coder than Randi Harper. Coraline Ada is probably a better comparison. I think some people try and dog on the quality of Coraline's work, but I don't think that's fair. Coraline was originally a decent coder who became a tranny. Not a tranny who later tried to infiltrate coding.
Corey just decided he liked to talk more than they liked to code, so they started trying to jam cocs everywhere.
I see esr as the same sorta person, just on the opposite side of the political spectrum.
Also trannies going around and wanting to attach coc(k)s to every open source project. We don't have some regrets, do we?
Isn't it just like a man, to try and shove their CoC in places where it isn't wanted?