Speaker unverified: evaluation

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…Yeah. It’s just like a whole spectrum of different people. It doesn’t matter. The important thing is, is your code good? Is your code great? Is your technology great? We care about excellent code. We don’t care who you are. Sorry, it’s just like we have no idea to check. We cannot check, right? Like, maybe you’re a dog. I don’t care, right? I don’t care where you come from. I need to look at your code. And this is important because people don’t understand that, and they come to the community and send them some patches, and they get rejected, and they don’t like that because, I mean, you’re just like, “Sorry, it’s not up to our standards. ” “Oh, yeah, but I’m an engineer at this very large company in Italy, in Germany, in the US.” We don’t care. We care about the quality of your code because this is what defines our community, which means that we have a lot of people who contribute who are from some very different backgrounds and, and, and very introverts, sure. But that’s okay, right? So one of the legends of the community is of course, Linus Torvalds, who created Linux and is a longtime maintainer of the Linux kernel. As the legend goes, he can be pretty harsh on this meritocratic process of reviewing the code and saying it’s not good enough. Can you just speak to the legend of Linus Torvalds?…

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