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was publicly being rude to the point of making other contributors leave (even after being asked to stop) and at least one case of using a slur they said it the
by micromacrofoot 9mo ago
was publicly being rude to the point of making other contributors leave (even after being asked to stop) and at least one case of using a slur
they said it themselves in this post
> Yes, I know I am hard to work with. Yes, I know that I pushed certain OSS contributors away.
generally the kind of person that gives open source a bad reputation, you can be critical or anti-social without being an asshole
- hiprob 9mo agowhat about linus torvalds
- rbtbisrespected 9mo ago[dead]
- micromacrofoot 9mo agohe's the guy that created the linux kernel
- malicka 9mo agoYou can be Dr. House MD only when you have the rep and skills of Dr. House MD. I think Linus definitely cleared that threshold.
- rtaylorgarlock 9mo agoBoy i wish that principle held up in real medicine and other parts of life; "rep and skills" may in some ways equal power, but that false equivalency is how problematic behavior is excused in unfit individuals.
- Conan_Kudo 9mo agoLinus got counseling to get better at communication. Even he recognized that was bad. Don't use him as an example to accept bad people.
- hysan 9mo agohttps://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...