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The post I was responding to was talking about Linus' behavior in general, not anything specific to this article.
by mwfunk 12y ago
The post I was responding to was talking about Linus' behavior in general, not anything specific to this article.
- vacri 12y agoMy point is more that the talk of Tovald's abrasiveness is largely a strawman. People take selected excerpts of his conversations, show them out of context, and then a tsunami of "what a bastard!" results. Almost every time I've seen this happen on HN, the excerpt is taken from a longer discussion, where he's already spent some time talking to the person in question before 'turning on them'. And then when an article like this comes along, with no offensiveness in it, people just have to talk about his 'issue with being abusive'. The funny thing is that here on HN, Jobs generally gets a nod for behaving like a bastard ("because that's what's needed to make a good product"), but Torvalds gets demonised. Even de Raadt, famed for his abrasiveness, is accorded respect for it. It puzzles me on two fronts, because Torvalds really isn't that abrasive unless you really push him, and that for some reason, he doesn't get respect that other tech 'names' do for (supposedly) being so.