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And he committed the patch anyway... https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/6/5/774 https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/6/5/774

• s-shellfish 8y ago
  It's a reasonable response, imho. The community wants to go in a given direction based on directed guidance, a standard. The community that follows the standard blindly lacks the intellectual tools to question the standard. The community needs the standard at the present moment but also needs directed guidance to be able to learn how to question the standard. It doesn't seem like hypocrisy to me, it just seems like he's annoyed at the general problem, aware that an individual mind does not have the capacity to solve the problem alone, aware that a collaborative effort is needed, and otherwise, venting, because problems like these are honestly, incredibly frustrating, especially when computers basically have to all be able to 'think' in ways that are more or less, equivalent, yet, humans don't think perfectly identically.
  • gkya 8y ago
    > The community that follows the standard blindly lacks the intellectual tools to question the standard. Yeah Linus is the sole person who has some "intellectual tools" in a community of thousands of people.
    • s-shellfish 8y ago
      That's not what I said.
• freedomben 8y ago
  This is actually something I like about Linus, and one of the reasons I think the Linux kernel has been so successful: he merges stuff even when he doesn't personally agree with it or see the value in it. He has rejected plenty of stuff that would introduce problems, but despite the outwardly harsh attitude he works to try and make things acceptable so they can be merged.