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Although I'm not a kernel developer, I strongly suspect that Linus' common reputation is driven by cherry-picking his nastiest rants and then exposing only thos
by dasil003 12y ago
Although I'm not a kernel developer, I strongly suspect that Linus' common reputation is driven by cherry-picking his nastiest rants and then exposing only those to the vast majority of current developers hanging out social channels who will never in their career look at kernel source code.
- asgard1024 12y agoI think, to some extent, Linus cultivates this image himself. Reminds me of Richard Feynman threads here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8030010 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8030010 Someone commented (not sure it was on HN) that Feynman also cultivated a different, more "rough", image in public than he actually was in the real life.