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He did start out by saying Peter Samuelson's CS education was bad, so there was certainly some of the infamous Linus in there.
by Perceptes 12y ago
He did start out by saying Peter Samuelson's CS education was bad, so there was certainly some of the infamous Linus in there.
- rainbowgarden 12y agoCan you blame Linus for saying that? I can't speak with precision about 1999, but someone assumed to have a CS education should know the difference between semaphore and spinlock.
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- zo1 12y agoWhether they did or didn't know about the definitions, they should have at least looked it up to confirm before posting to the Linux Kernel Dev list or taking on Linus on the matter.
- devnonymous 12y agoErm, firstly he didn't say Peter's Samuelson's CS education was bad. He said "your CS courses were bad" and then follows up with "...(or just didn't cover much about concurrency, which is fairly common) ..." . I think, you might have been trying very hard to find some of the Linus you imagined in there.