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Expression of political views isn't the problem. Imagine you're in a workplace setting. Would you want Linus as a colleague; would you hire him? Forget hard tec
by JMTQp8lwXL 6y ago
Expression of political views isn't the problem. Imagine you're in a workplace setting. Would you want Linus as a colleague; would you hire him? Forget hard technical skills for a moment: if you're going to spend 40+ hours a week around colleagues, you need to ensure they are reasonable, kind people for your own mental health, and for the health of your organization.
- salawat 6y agoYou aren't around him for 40 hours a week. You're dealing with him only as long as it takes to get changes into the kernel, a software deliverable with an incredible vulnerability to malicious injection of low-quality crippling code without active measures being taken to ensure code quality and architectural conformance. That he was blunt, unequivocal and direct is not a failing on his part, but on the listener's for getting so in a twist they couldn't get the requested fixes in.