Well, it seems that there were some bastards trying to mess with Linus Torvalds with the new Code of Conduct for Linux which can cause various legal issues with the developers. Up until the present time, the developers were having a fine time in developing their own Linux distros or other stuffs for Linux OSes until someone implemented the new Code of Conduct. This caused the developers to threaten to pull the 'Kill Switch' as an act of resistance against it. What it means is that, they must pull their code and not contribute to those radical warriors. That's not justice at times and the Linux Community is concerned about it. At that time, the famous man, Linus Torvalds, had left the team for two weeks before making a comeback in developing Linux Kernel 4.19.
One unacceptable thing was that those radical activists had been
trying to force the Linux project to join the Contributor Covenant since
a few years ago. Its special Code of Conduct is the current Linux
CoC as of this present time. The activists behind the new Code of Conduct had the guts to use it to kick out one particular group of developers based on some disturbing motives from its guidelines for no reason.
Another unacceptable behavior is that one of those activists had the guts to blame Ted Tso for not signing off the patch. He was pretty much targeted for resisting the Intel backdoor that would allow the controversial cyber-spying to happen. Who knows if those activists were supporting that spying or not? Not to mention that the same person who accused Ted Tso like that had violated the new CoC as indicated from the amount of backlash replies on social media.
Sure, Linus Torvalds had behaved badly in the past as reflected by him during his temporarily departure but to cause the developers to pull the code and rescind the license is one wrong thing. But the thing is, even Linus Torvalds had signed something for this new Code of Conduct and the defenders had the guts to claim that resisting this new CoC is equal to wanting different groups to be harassed which is obviously not true for us.
There may be a link leading to the news which is not recent anymore as we know of the recent update about Linus Torvalds as seen in the recent Softpedia article regarding Linux Kernel 4.19 here: https://lulz.com/linux-devs-threaten-killswitch-coc-controversy-1252/.
