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OPINION

GITS NEW AND OLD

Jon Masters

The Register recently ran a piece in which Microsoft’s representative to the Linux Foundation board, Sarah Novotny, talked about the potential barrier to entry imposed by plain text email and mailing lists for kernel development.

Jon Masters has been involved with Linux for over 22 years.

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