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Or it could of been any person or country. It was a nothing burger and is still a nothing burger

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It was clearly an attack. By who is unknown.

Notably this was in 2003 before git (2005) so linux source was in a central bitkeeper repo. So a commit with no associated data about who did it should not have been possible.

Here is a more detailed article. https://lwn.net/Articles/57135/

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speaking in burger terms as any good american

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Proud to be an American, at least I know I’m free.

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Free to buy all the hamburgers!

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