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Did you read the article? I don't believe the article is "personality first" at all. There's little in there that highlights his personality aside from a throw

Did you read the article? I don't believe the article is "personality first" at all. There's little in there that highlights his personality aside from a throwaway comment that the author believes they're both somewhat arrogant. In fact, in all the Linus quotes in the article there's not even a single shred of arrogance.

wirrbel 12y ago
the article does not claim that they were arrogant in this discussion. It was very much not an article of the "Linus-Torvalds-is-rude" kind but more of a comparison of visions. In a way, Torvalds showed with git that he is a good software engineer by putting together established techniques to form an excellent "product". He did not get side-tracked by reinventing the wheel but focused on a useful feature set and a performant implementation. A very good job indeed.
- dpark 12y ago
  Was there actually any doubt about Linus's software engineering ability? He created and now manages the most successful kernel in the world.
- baldfat 12y ago
  I actually never said anything about arrogant BUT the author did in his introduction. I only said "Personality First"
baldfat 12y ago
Did you read the first paragraph? Thanks for keeping up the down votes for what I point out something that is clearly in the article BUT someone decides I am stretching something ~~~ "Now, I've never had a particular liking for either of these personalities, although I've had to recognize that they're very clever individuals. Both of them have been known for occasional demonstrations of arrogance."
- baldfat 12y ago
  Another unnecessary down vote.