The whole incident emphasizes the extent to which these ostensibly technical debates are often settled by personality and emotion, rather than by technical excellence. //

It looks likely that Overstreet has upset too many important, influential people, and hurt too many feelings — and as a result, Linux is not going to get a new next-gen copy-on-write filesystem. It's a significant technological loss, and it's all down to people not getting along, rather than the shared desire to create a better OS. ®