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Fake news: No Linux devs are threatening to pull code

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Sam Varghese
Sep 26, 2018

The term “fake news” has become a staple in the US, after Donald Trump became president and started using it every second day, and in situations where it doesn’t fit. But closer to home (Australia), there are genuine instances of such bogus stories, with one surfacing two days ago, in the wake of Linux creator Linus Torvalds stepping down temporarily from managing the kernel project

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Sam Varghese

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