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"Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow." - Linus Torvalds A rude leader drives people away from the organization. It is directly counterproductive.
by trjordan 8y ago
"Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow." - Linus Torvalds
A rude leader drives people away from the organization. It is directly counterproductive.
- Nasrudith 8y agoDepends on how rudeness is defined as well. Based soley on people's feelings or above and beyond objective truth. Saying that Bob hasn't proven good at network programming and is prone to spaghetti code may be absolutely true yet he would likely take offense to it.
- geezerjay 8y ago> It is directly counterproductive. Linux is by far the most successful floss project in the history of mankind. God knows there are plenty of floss OS projects out there, most of which have far nicer leaders but a small fraction of the success. Either you're overplaying the effect on productivity or the relevance of being nice.
- joshuamorton 8y agoCorrelation does not imply causation. It's absolutely possible that Linux is the exception. There are many oss projects which don't have the same level of abuse.
- village-idiot 8y agoThere's another way to view it: some projects are so important that they can tolerate a large level of rudeness and not fail.
- davidgould 8y agoActually this was written by Eric Raymond in "The Cathedral and the Bazaar". Raymond dubbed it "Linus's Law" which may be the source of the confusion.