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So, what would you do? Would you rather have Linux, or would you rather that noone ever get their feelings hurt by harsh comments? Perhaps he should have been
by tomohawk 8y ago
So, what would you do? Would you rather have Linux, or would you rather that noone ever get their feelings hurt by harsh comments?
Perhaps he should have been given the boot years ago for saying such things, but would we have Linux today?
I really don't think that that is a false choice. You and I did not create Linux - Linus did. You and I did not keep it going despite the massive flock of ducks constantly pecking. Perhaps if we achieve something similar, we can judge.
Sometimes you have to take the bad with the good. Linux now has a whole community, likely calling for a different leadership style. I hope Linus is able to make that transition.
- Mtinie 8y agoDid Linux suck the air out of other, competing projects throughout its history? If so we can’t possibly consider what was or wasn’t lost.
- mmirate 8y agoIf it did, then good riddance. Linux is barely able to attract hardware vendors to write less-than-afterthought drivers as it is; let alone with, say, even more non-Unix OS flavors as distraction. Things like Redox and Haiku may be interesting theoretical constructs, but without the ability to use Linux (or BSD) device-drivers, they're not generally useful to the free software community and we can only hope they don't draw too many resources away from more useful pursuits.
- wyclif 8y agoWould you rather have Linux, or would you rather that noone ever get their feelings hurt by harsh comments? Sounds like a false dilemma or externalized either/or to me. It's not as if Linux could not have existed had Linus learned 20 years ago to dial down his abrasiveness.