| 2. Professionalism means different things to different people, and in Linus's case it means being uncompromising in his expectations of the people he allows t

| 2. Professionalism means different things to different people, and in Linus's case it means being uncompromising in his expectations of the people he allows to work on his code. by yelling and cursing at them... anyone with enough self-respect and high enough self esteem wouldn't work a day for a guy like that. I don't care what the cause/product. | 4. He has the right to run his project how he sees fit, and so far that's working pretty damn well. yes, I use to work for a company that had primadona dev leads who'd yell and demean their junior and senior devs in public about checking in bugs against apps that were also working pretty damn well. we also had a revolving door (lowest employee retention of all the other departments) for developers in the company.