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Absolutely not. Linus has been doing nothing but a managerial role for a long time. His initial cloning of Unix is something that university students across CS
by vezzy-fnord 11y ago
Absolutely not. Linus has been doing nothing but a managerial role for a long time. His initial cloning of Unix is something that university students across CS departments everywhere practically did as a rite of passage.
Theo de Raadt, on the other hand, has never stopped hacking since his days in NetBSD.
- dasil003 11y agoWhat makes you think management does not contribute? There is no way you can quantify the number of kernel bugs you didn't have to deal with because Linus said no to an ill-conceived feature.
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoThat he has vetoed various frivolous proposals is undeniable. There's nothing "unfathomable" about it. I strongly approve of his visceral policy against people breaking userspace. His particular post linked here is nonsense, however.
- dasil003 11y agoI'm not arguing for his post, I'm just offended by your casual implication that "nothing but a managerial role" is an insignificant contribution to the software world for a project like the linux kernel.