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From TFA - "After reading the thread on a mirror, it's important to note that after the argument, Alan and Linus continued to debate the technical merits of how
by zaph0d 17y ago
From TFA - "After reading the thread on a mirror, it's important to note that after the argument, Alan and Linus continued to debate the technical merits of how to patch the bugs. The ongoing conversation was civilized and concise. Of course Linus is too much of a pompous ass to apologize to Alan for completely misunderstanding the problem and proposing dangerous and useless ways of fixing it, then arguing about it ad nauseum. Oddly, this doesn't seem to bother Alan or maybe he's just used to it."
- DarkShikari 17y agoThis is one thing I have found true of great open source developers in general: regardless of their attitude, regardless of past events, regardless of the situation, they can carry on technical debates on how to deal with an issue. In other words, for such people, the technical merits of an idea supersede all other aspects.
- pbhjpbhj 17y agoI read the thread (didn't understand most of it) but Torvalds describes Cox work as "crap" and tells him "you're full of crap". Way to stick to the technical merits there ... That's some attitude.
- DarkShikari 17y agoDid I ever say I was referring to Linus? ;)
- pbhjpbhj 17y agoNo, I didn't assume you did. My comment was partially tangential (now there's a geeky oxymoron).