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What I mean by without prompting is that in all the cases I've seen, nobody's being toxic towards him. He does look prompted by the apparent stupidity that exi
by PakG1 9y ago
What I mean by without prompting is that in all the cases I've seen, nobody's being toxic towards him. He does look prompted by the apparent stupidity that exists all around him though. I'll admit that sometimes I get annoyed by people who are less intelligent than I am, it's something I've been working on for some time. But he's on another level. :)
- monocasa 9y agoYou're missing the context of the rest of the discussion that might have (or might should have) been going on for months. A key component of Linus's job is to arbitrate high level disagreements on the lkml. He tends to use strong language only when something should have never reached the level of discussion that he participates in at all.
- mmjaa 9y agoAlso (having followed him for decades now), I think its very important to remember that Linus lives and dies by the maxim: get the kernel working, or gtfo. Things which intentionally destroy a running instance of Linux, or in some way render the kernel less valuable to the end-user really, really piss Linus off - in this context. I believe this is a key aspect of the Linux evolution: the only people of any value and import, feelings-wise, are the users. Not the developers, not security experts, and so on. He has done everything to ensure that the focus stays on working code, and not feelings, but .. when he has to .. he sure climbs the tree and jumps hard on anyone trying to cut into this substance of the Linux zeitgeist. Make it valuable to the user, or gtfo.