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A celebrity who speaks with a highly authoritative voice whether they have any idea what they're talking about or not. Sounds about right.
by LaGrange 8y ago
A celebrity who speaks with a highly authoritative voice whether they have any idea what they're talking about or not. Sounds about right.
- mort96 8y agoDo you have a link to where Linus talks in a highly authoritative voice when he has yesn't idea what he's talking about? All the cases I've seen where he's talking in an authoritative voice have been about topics he's an expert in.
- LaGrange 8y agoI mean, just google anytime he talks about security or licensing. And, frankly, people more expert on, say, C, than Torvalds, are dime a dozen. Okay, a large heap of dimes, but still. They just tend to swear less, and in the OP you can see them defering to him to deescalate the situation.
- mort96 8y agoIt's not interesting to argue about who's "more expert". If Linus is just "slightly expert", that's very far away from having no idea what he's talking about. My claim wasn't that Linus was the "expertest" C programmer in the world. I'm neither an expert in security nor in licensing, most of the things I've heard him say about either sounds pretty reasonable. Could you link to an example where he talks out of his ass, and explain why what he's saying is stupid? Both licensing and security strikes me as the kind of thing the author of the world's most used FOSS kernel has thought a lot about.
- dagenix 8y agoLinus invented Linux and git. He very much is qualified to talk about his oppinion on aliasig rules. Frankly, anyone who has worked in C is. But, if we're going to play the call to authortiy game: who the fuck are you and what have you done?