"When your development community is completely open, everything is out there for the world to see, including your disagreements. This is just another disagreement on the Linux kernel, and it's more calm than many of them," Jonathan Corbet, author of Linux Device Drivers and a member of the invitation-only kernel summit program committee, told LinuxInsider.
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