There is an apology for that comment and a rewording further down the thread. Evidently made by someone who is not a native speaker who did not realise how it comes across.

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teekert 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Good addition,thanx.

I've been in a similar situation, letting everyone know I was fired. Apparently in the US this has a negative connotation, and they use "being let go" (or something confusing as "handing in/being handed your 2 weeks notice", a concept completely unknown here). Here we only have one word for "your company terminating your employment", and there is no negative connotation associated with it. This can be difficult for non-natives. We can come across very weird or less intelligent.

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T3OU-736 2 days ago | parent [-]

In the US, the terminology tends to split into "fired" (implies "for valid reasons") vs "laid off" (implies "position was terminsted, this was not about the employee or their qualities and performance").

	▲	graemep 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		In the UK "fired" would mean the same, "laid off" off would mean the same, "made redundant" also means the same and more clearly, with emphasis on the position no longer existing. "Sacked" means about the same as fired.

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dbdr 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Funnily enough the apology ends with:

> If the above offended anyone, I sincerely apology them.

Unless this was tongue-in-cheek, this kind of proves the point that language was the cause. The apology is a good move in any case.

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t51923712 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Why would the "behave" comment mean anything different in Czech than in English?

The revised version, "Once the bcachefs maintainer conforms to the agreed process and the code is maintained upstream again" is still lecturing and piling on, as the LWN comments say:

https://lwn.net/Articles/1037496/

It is the classic case of CoC people and their inner circle denouncing someone, and subsequently the entire Internet keeps piling on the target.

	▲	badosu 21 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There's a lot more context than what is being discussed here. Kent has proven to be incapable to respect the release window process everyone who works in the kernel agrees to. I don't like politics in my repo as much as the next guy, but this case is pretty clear cut. There's no ambiguity or controversy.