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If you look at the tech world of the 80s, 90% of it was very buttoned-up and proper, despite being male-dominated. The rudeness comes from Linux' roots in a you
by kryptiskt 8y ago
If you look at the tech world of the 80s, 90% of it was very buttoned-up and proper, despite being male-dominated.
The rudeness comes from Linux' roots in a youth-dominated hacker subculture. It just doesn't work very well when they aren't teenage hackers anymore, but have gone mainstream and are working at it in a professional capacity.
- wolfgke 8y ago> It just doesn't work very well when they aren't teenage hackers anymore, but have gone mainstream What has gone mainstream is in my opinion something very different than what the original hacker ethos was about. See for example https://aeon.co/essays/how-yuppies-hacked-the-original-hacker-ethos https://aeon.co/essays/how-yuppies-hacked-the-original-hacke...
- ploxiln 8y agoOr has that "hacker subculture" actually worked AMAZINGLY BETTER THAN ALL THE CORPORATE CRAP OUT THERE. Corporate/Professional: Symantec, Microsoft Rude/Hacker: Linux, OpenBSD