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Good project must have passionate leader. Linus or Theo or Richard or Guido or Igor or Salvatore you name him.. Otherwise it will become a "kolkhoz". )

• sdp 14y ago
  The unbalanced paren at the end of your comment really irks my OCD.
  • srik 14y ago
    I read it as a "soft-smile".
  • kpierre 14y ago
    this is russian smiley. usually used like that )))))
• pcwalton 14y ago
  Passionate, sure. Insulting, no. To be honest, I think Linux is successful despite Linus' temperament, not because of it. There are many counterexamples of successful open source projects that maintain a respectful tone: WebKit, LLVM, GCC, GNOME, KDE, Perl, etc.
  • dschiptsov 14y ago
    This is a side-effect.