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Even Linus doesn’t act that way anymore. Here’s him a few years ago: > This week people in our community confronted me about my lifetime of not understanding e

Even Linus doesn’t act that way anymore. Here’s him a few years ago: > This week people in our community confronted me about my lifetime of not understanding emotions. My flippant attacks in emails have been both unprofessional and uncalled for. > Especially at times when I made it personal. In my quest for a better patch, this made sense to me. I know now this was not OK and I am truly sorry. The above is basically a long-winded way to get to the somewhat painful personal admission that hey, I need to change some of my behavior, and I want to apologize to the people that my personal behavior hurt and possibly drove away from kernel development entirely. > I am going to take time off and get some assistance on how to understand people's emotions and respond appropriately. He took time off and he’s better now. What you call “political correctness” is what I and others call “basic professionalism”. It took Linus 25 years to understand that. I can only hope that the people who hero worshipped him and adopted a similar attitude can also mature.

philwelch 11mo ago
Yeah, that didn’t last. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wjLCqUUWd8DzG+xsOn-yVL0Q=O35U9D6j6=2DUWX52ghQ@mail.gmail.com/ https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wjLCqUUWd8DzG+xsOn-yVL0Q=...
- yupyupyups 11mo ago
  But you got to give it to him, he does seem to be really good at catching deficiensies early that may accumulate to become serious bugs or security vulnerabilities in the future. Sure, being an asshole is not ok, but being assertive is a must for a person in his position.
  - philwelch 10mo ago
    I’m very much a Linus defender; the kernel is more important than people’s feelings and his approach has maintained a high level of quality.
- testdelacc1 11mo ago
  If you’ll notice, he called the code garbage, not the author. Judging by how bad the code was, I think this interaction was fine. This actually shows the progress Linus made in improving himself.
- jjmarr 11mo ago
  > And sending a big pull request the day before the merge window closes in the hope that I'm too busy to care is not a winning strategy. I wish I could say this. But unfortunately delaying your big PR until it's affecting schedule is a good way to dodge review.

philwelch 11mo ago

Yeah, that didn’t last. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wjLCqUUWd8DzG+xsOn-yVL0Q=O35U9D6j6=2DUWX52ghQ@mail.gmail.com/ https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wjLCqUUWd8DzG+xsOn-yVL0Q=...

yupyupyups 11mo ago
But you got to give it to him, he does seem to be really good at catching deficiensies early that may accumulate to become serious bugs or security vulnerabilities in the future. Sure, being an asshole is not ok, but being assertive is a must for a person in his position.
- philwelch 10mo ago
  I’m very much a Linus defender; the kernel is more important than people’s feelings and his approach has maintained a high level of quality.
testdelacc1 11mo ago
If you’ll notice, he called the code garbage, not the author. Judging by how bad the code was, I think this interaction was fine. This actually shows the progress Linus made in improving himself.
jjmarr 11mo ago
> And sending a big pull request the day before the merge window closes in the hope that I'm too busy to care is not a winning strategy. I wish I could say this. But unfortunately delaying your big PR until it's affecting schedule is a good way to dodge review.