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It's amusing to watch people defend Linus every time a post mentions his abrasive style. They always offer the same set of excuses: Linux is too important to le
by tannhauser23 8y ago
It's amusing to watch people defend Linus every time a post mentions his abrasive style. They always offer the same set of excuses: Linux is too important to leave to nice people! Linus only does this to people who should know better! Get thicker skin! Etc etc.
It's the same set of excuses that justify assholes in any profession, and it suffers from the same flaw: it's not actually necessary to be a dickhead to be good at your job. In fact, being a dick to others makes it less likely for good, qualified, and smart people to want to work with you.
Linus will continue being a dick to others because of who he is - that's never gonna change. But I wish people would stop sticking up for his bad behavior. I don't want people in other OSS projects emulating him.
- MrStonedOne 8y ago>it's not actually necessary to be a dickhead to be good at your job. The reverse is also true.
- bonesss 8y ago> I don't want people in other OSS projects emulating him. This strikes me as a self-regulating problem... Linus gets to Linus for a lot of the same reasons Jobs got to Jobs. Try to port those attitudes to other areas, less successful areas, and you're gonna hit human factors. Namely: people aren't gonna tolerate jerks without cause. Linus is not a role model, he's running a highly important and specific project. He's not dealing with weekend coders, he's wrangling senior types IBM, RedHat, MS, and Google. If those corporate titans don't like how he writes on his mailing list they're welcome to fork off into the sunset ;)
- subjectsigma 8y agoWrite your own kernel and impose your own standards.