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Well said. Matz is a perfect example of what Linus is not and can never be.
by dblock 14y ago
Well said. Matz is a perfect example of what Linus is not and can never be.
- bitops 14y agoIt's not highlighted very much anymore, but the philosophy of the Ruby community used to be: Matz is nice so we are too.
- nknight 14y agoI don't have a lot of first-hand context for Matz's behavior, not being a Ruby developer, but it's entirely possible, even likely, that in the context of Japanese culture, Matz's niceness would not be seen as especially remarkable. Pitting one person's "niceness" against another when they are products of vastly different cultures is questionable at best. To most westerners, the average Japanese person is extremely polite, if not bordering on the absurd, while to most Japanese, the average westerner is, to say the least, unrefined, and Torvalds is probably downright horrifying. Such things must be taken in their cultural context, or you can't really understand people's behavior at all.
- disusered 14y agoSpeak for yourself, as a Westerner I find it horrifying. Not having tact doesn't make your point better, it just makes you a bullying jerk.