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> calmly and friendly for years i mean, i don't know, maybe it's all just clickbait but i don't think that's his reputation here's a short story about persona

> calmly and friendly for years i mean, i don't know, maybe it's all just clickbait but i don't think that's his reputation here's a short story about personal growth via arstechnica urls: linus-torvalds-defends-his-right-to-shame-linux-kernel-developers(2013): <https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/07/linus-torvalds-defends-his-right-to-shame-linux-kernel-developers/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/07/linus...> linus-torvalds-on-why-he-isnt-nice-i-dont-care-about-you(2015): <https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/01/linus-torvalds-on-why-he-isnt-nice-i-dont-care-about-you/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/01/linus...> linus-torvalds-apologizes-for-years-of-being-a-jerk-takes-time-off-to-learn-empathy(2018): <https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/09/linus-torvalds-apologizes-for-years-of-being-a-jerk-takes-time-off-to-learn-empathy/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/09/linus-torvalds-apolo...>

arp242 5y ago
I don't think it's "clickbait", but it is a very incomplete picture. A previous comment on the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26815088 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26815088 If you look at the interviews, then he's usually fairly nuanced and just pragmatical. The "nVidia, fuck you" was pretty funny in context, but now Linus giving the finger is the image for many Ars stories on Linus shrug. And even when he's being an asshole he's at least being a constructive asshole; I don't care much for the overly confrontational style either, but it's a lot better than people just being assholes, which is very common too. I also don't think that every community needs to adopt the same communication style by the way. What is considered "professional" is quite different in the Netherlands than it is in the US with its weird hyper-aversion to "bad words" (e.g. a while ago I saw a police shooting where someone was literally being killed containing a content warning for ... "offensive language", and not the actual literal death of someone).

arp242 5y ago

I don't think it's "clickbait", but it is a very incomplete picture. A previous comment on the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26815088 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26815088 If you look at the interviews, then he's usually fairly nuanced and just pragmatical. The "nVidia, fuck you" was pretty funny in context, but now Linus giving the finger is the image for many Ars stories on Linus shrug. And even when he's being an asshole he's at least being a constructive asshole; I don't care much for the overly confrontational style either, but it's a lot better than people just being assholes, which is very common too. I also don't think that every community needs to adopt the same communication style by the way. What is considered "professional" is quite different in the Netherlands than it is in the US with its weird hyper-aversion to "bad words" (e.g. a while ago I saw a police shooting where someone was literally being killed containing a content warning for ... "offensive language", and not the actual literal death of someone).