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> he often made personal insults Was it often? I was never an ardent follower of his -- I primarily work in another field -- so I certainly haven't read or li
by Nicksil 8y ago
> he often made personal insults
Was it often?
I was never an ardent follower of his -- I primarily work in another field -- so I certainly haven't read or listened to all he's said. I did catch those handful of instances where he rocked the boat, but I don't recall the personal insults. Obviously that isn't to say it never occurred, but I'm wondering if he personally insulted people as often as you state.
- staticassertion 8y agoYeah, it used to be way more often > a decade ago. Most of the famous rants people know of are from more recently, and are fairly insulting. I don't store old mailing lists, but the thing I generally point to is his statements towards the security community and, back then, specifically PaX team. I've stumbled on tons of personal attacks from him, either escalating an already negative conversation, or starting it himself. I also challenge the "usually right". To my knowledge, Linus is quite often wrong. And that's fine, really, everyone is wrong a lot of the time. But hero worship, or feeling the need to excuse his behavior even somewhat due to a false sense that it's helping things, is not a good idea.