>> Yet they do. People think I'm a nice guy, and the fact is that I'm a scheming, conniving bastard who doesn't care for any hurt feelings or lost hours of work

>> Yet they do. People think I'm a nice guy, and the fact is that I'm a scheming, conniving bastard who doesn't care for any hurt feelings or lost hours of work if it just results in what I consider to be a better system. Such honesty. I think that jerks who scheme and hurt individuals for the common good are the best kinds of jerks and the world needs more of them. Also, his points make perfect sense for Linux Kernel development. It shouldn't be easy to change. Stability is by far the most important feature. Even excellent developers don't cut it for the Kernel; you need complete freaks of nature. It's impossible to even wrap one's mind around the sheer number of systems that depend on the Linux kernel. Kernel development cannot be slow enough. Most of the new code should be thrown away without batting an eyelash. In fact, every line of code merged should be so good that it should deserve an international conference dedicated to it and the author should get a medal. Heck, every line of code should have a religion built around it; complete with churches, priests, a pope, schools, etc...