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> By contrast the *BSD communities were far more helpful I think I'd take Linux Torvald's criticism over Theo de Raadt's any day of the week…
by zeveb 11y ago
> By contrast the *BSD communities were far more helpful
I think I'd take Linux Torvald's criticism over Theo de Raadt's any day of the week…
- webaholic 11y agoYou are narrowing it to only Linus. It goes much deeper than that.
- drewg123 11y agoIndeed -- it was the subsystem maintainer (and a few people on the list) that were the problem. We never dealt with Linus himself.
- drewg123 11y agoI was speaking mostly of FreeBSD -- that's the only BSD we had direct support for. We did have some friendly interactions with OpenBSD, but not directly with Theo.
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoThe Linux kernel is structured in a tree-like hierarchy such that most neophytes will likely never directly encounter Linus, but be chewed off by a subsystem maintainer long before that. In contrast, Theo is just another hacker who also happens to be project leader, compared to the more "ivory tower" approach of Linus.
- debacle 11y agoI'd be happy with a bit of criticism from either.
- chris_wot 11y agoSo, it appears, would Sarah. But that's not why she has left.
- s73v3r 11y agoThere's a huge difference between criticism, and saying you wish that someone was retroactively aborted.
- craftkiller 11y agoIf Theo ever criticised my code I'd frame it and keep it at my desk!
- Kristine1975 11y agoI'd prefer a cheque by Donald Knuth ;-)