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Can you picture it as the passionate founder of the largest open source non-profit in existence telling a highly paid software engineer at the largest closed so

Can you picture it as the passionate founder of the largest open source non-profit in existence telling a highly paid software engineer at the largest closed source tech conglomorate in the world that the self-serving code he's pushing into the repo you've been maintaining for 30 years is trash, because it is trash? Because that's what you're seeing here.

ajkjk 3y ago
Yet it would be so, so, so easy to do that in a way that isn't so mean and sad to watch. It's a passionate founder with an abuse problem doing something that doesn't require abuse but being abusive anyway and, because they're too important, no one can easily prevent it.
eviks 3y ago
You've added a bunch of irrelevant qualifications to a, to borrow your language, highly paid jerk in power enjoying being a jerk. This is also much easier to picture and much closer to describing the situation
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groby_b 3y ago
So what? First, if you fly off the handle every time somebody pushes some bad code, you might want to find some help, because it's going to happen a lot. Everybody writes bad code from time to time, and the more people you work with, the more likely you are to encounter cases. Linus is sure working with a lot of people. Second, Linus has always been rude. This isn't because his beloved work of 30 years got sullied, it's because he has a temper and can get away with it. He had that temper back in 1991, and he's been at most slightly successful at tempering it since. He's repeatedly making the choice to be that way. He could choose a different response, but he prefers replying this way, for whatever reasons. You can argue if that is or isn't OK. But either way, it's a choice to be rude, not an innate emotional response because some dirty peon has sullied the œeuvre of the great artist.
varispeed 3y ago
It's funny how people use word "passionate" as a synonym of toxic and abusive. I had "pleasure" of working with this type of people with inflated egos and too attached to their work, so I can certainly picture it, but not in a way you think. Be humble.

ajkjk 3y ago

Yet it would be so, so, so easy to do that in a way that isn't so mean and sad to watch. It's a passionate founder with an abuse problem doing something that doesn't require abuse but being abusive anyway and, because they're too important, no one can easily prevent it.

eviks 3y ago

You've added a bunch of irrelevant qualifications to a, to borrow your language, highly paid jerk in power enjoying being a jerk. This is also much easier to picture and much closer to describing the situation

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groby_b 3y ago

So what? First, if you fly off the handle every time somebody pushes some bad code, you might want to find some help, because it's going to happen a lot. Everybody writes bad code from time to time, and the more people you work with, the more likely you are to encounter cases. Linus is sure working with a lot of people. Second, Linus has always been rude. This isn't because his beloved work of 30 years got sullied, it's because he has a temper and can get away with it. He had that temper back in 1991, and he's been at most slightly successful at tempering it since. He's repeatedly making the choice to be that way. He could choose a different response, but he prefers replying this way, for whatever reasons. You can argue if that is or isn't OK. But either way, it's a choice to be rude, not an innate emotional response because some dirty peon has sullied the œeuvre of the great artist.

varispeed 3y ago

It's funny how people use word "passionate" as a synonym of toxic and abusive. I had "pleasure" of working with this type of people with inflated egos and too attached to their work, so I can certainly picture it, but not in a way you think. Be humble.