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Torvalds Gets Tough on Kernel Contributors
ChocLinux writes "Linus Torvalds is cracking down on developers that add last-minute changes to the kernel during the two-week merge window. He says: 'If people miss the merge window or start abusing it with hurried last-minute things that just cause problems for -rc1, I'll just refuse to merge, and laugh in their faces derisively when they whine plaintively at me, and tell them there's going to be a new opening soon enough.'"
Torvalds later added, "I am legion. All shall kiss my smoldering hoof."
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. --Seneca
Prof. Farnsworth: This will not stand! I'll take you on, you air balling bozos!
Bubblegum: You old man? Ha! Sweet Clive, laugh derisively at him.
Sweet Clive: Ahaha, ahaha, aahahaha.
Linus has a new title:
Not-So-Benevolent (But Exceedingly Pragmatic) Dictator for Life?
It's not really inflammatory if you can't help imagining the speaker saying it in a high-pitched, nasal voice.
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Steve Ballmer referred to him as an "amateur" and offered to tutor him in the art of anger.
He's merely doing his job as lead maintainer - which usually includes a little verbal dutch rub for the team once in a while.
Getting tough is more like "Do that once more and I'll have Don Papa and his mob minions knocking at your door with a fresh set of baseball clubs!" or something like that.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
If Linus talks down to other developers that contribute to Linux in such a primitive way, he shouldn't complain about Slashdot, as he did here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/8/20/95.
Well said, fellow slashdot user teewurstmann of id 755953! With that post, you certainly took Linus Torvalds to task for daring to belittle the collective intelligentsia that is SLASHDOT! As a mere senior kernel developer, founder of the Linux kernel project and leader of the mainline kernel development process certainly he needs to be shown his place by our community of insightful commentators. From mom's basement I stab at thee!
Developer: Here's my patch. Sorry its late...
Linus: The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee....
"We are all geniuses when we dream"
- E.M. Cioran
Let me guess, you don't have a job...
In Torvalds' book, "Just for Fun", he laughs in the reader's face derisively as they look at the printed words plaintively.
Somewhere, there's got to be a "Deep Thought" by Jack Handy about Linus T.
"Contrary to what most people say, the most dangerous animal in the world is not the lion or the tiger or even the elephant. It's a shark riding on an elephant's back, just trampling and eating everything they see." ~ Jack Handy
They call me the working man. I guess that's what I am.
Yeah, if I had written software that then got taken by major coporations to make a fortune and I never saw a dime, I'd be pretty dedicated to the sauce too.
Those were the days - back when I knew everything and wouldn't take constructive critisism from anyone!
Go read some of Linus's LKML or Usenet posts. He is conversationally fluent in English. You would have no way to tell he is not from an English-speaking country if you didn't know beforehand.
You would if you heard him speak - he completely mis-pronounces the word "Linux", for example ;o)
So.. it has come to this
It's much worse when girls do that to you.
Linus, give in to your hate and anger, feel the power of the Dark Side of the Force.
Throw Penguins damn it..
/. is good for you.
HIs language is commensurate with the amount of pissing and moaning that goes on.
When I worked as a cook, we were responsible for cleaning the kitchen during the shift (the place never closed). We'd be carrying buckets of hot grease or water and people would be drawn to walking in front of you it seemed. So, we took up yelling a warning when we were about to carry out hot stuff:
"HOT STUFF...MAKE WAY OR I'LL BURN YOU AND LAUGH"
It worked perfectly. And for those who didn't beleive, they found out the hard way.
WTF? Over?
when these types of quotes get posted on sites like ZDNet, this only contributes to the fact that people think Linux is poorly maintained and has a low software quality...
Yeah, he should act more like Steve Ballmer.
When I was a kid, we only had one Darth.
>>>Linus frequently expresses himself using a type of wry humour which is quite alien to US audiences. It's not bitchy, it just doesn't translate well.
remember this one???? hehehe ok, now someone thats not ac can post the same reference and take credit for the reference as usual....
Linux 2.0.36 patch - patch-2.0.36.gz (15-Nov-98)
From: Linus Torvalds
Subject: Linux-2.0.36..
Is out there.
I won't claim any false credit for this: all the 2.0.x work was
done by Alan Cox as the maintainer, and the 2.0.36 that is out
there is exactly the same as Alan's "pre-22" version that he
asked people to check out. He just asked me to "sprinkle some
holy penguin-pee on it" to bless it and make it official. This I
have done (*).
2.0.36 is a lot of updates, mostly to various drivers. ISDN,
various SCSI drivers and network cards have been updated quite
heavily. ISDN to the degree that you need to make sure you have
the most recent tools in order to play well with it.
Have fun,
Linus
(*) This, btw, is not something I would suggest you do in your
living room. Getting a penguin to pee on demand is _messy_. We're
talking yellow spots on the walls, on the ceiling, yea verily
even behind the fridge.
However. I would also advice against doing this outside - it may
be a lot easier to clean up, but you're likely to get reported
and arrested for public lewdness. Never mind that you had a
perfectly good explanation for it all.
Here are the Release Notes from Alan Cox (who put together the 2.0.36
release for Linus):
As a manager, I have tried many times to make this same thing stick. This, in a situation where I had influence over promotions, raises, and of course also could put people on written warning and move them out of the company if need be.
But, Linus has discovered the secret of actually making it happen! Just don't pay people in the first place! Genius!
This is why Linux is so successfull.
Linus has learned this difference. Apparently you haven't.
That's not the way it works in the business world. Every alpha male that has acted the way you suggest in the business world eventually ends up with their balls stuffed in their mouth. Either you learn when to hold your tongue, learn when to act civil, and learn when and where it's acceptable to overtly assert dominance, or you learn what your nuts taste like.
fast as fast can be. you'll never catch me.