Linus' Lessons On Software Dev Management

Posted by Soulskill on Monday September 26, 2011 @07:14AM from the if-you-want-something-done-right dept.

Esther Schindler writes "In this interview with Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Linus Torvalds shares hard-won wisdom about managing software development projects, including encouraging community involvement, the importance of programming tools, and ensuring the project stays on track. For instance, regarding getting people to contribute to your project, he says, 'If you start off with some "kumba-ya feeling" where you think people from all the world are going to come together to make a better world by working together on your project, you probably won't be going very far.'"

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Re:Kumba ya? by mugurel · 2011-09-26 07:43 · Score: 5, Informative

Torvalds was always more pragmatic than Stallman. And Stallman is getting more out of touch with reality, not having programmed the last 20 years.
If you're trying to say Stallman is a weirdo, I agree, but there's no need to insult the good man.
Besides that, you don't know what you're talking about. His last commit (at the time of writing) to the emacs source repository was less than a month ago:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/log/?qt=committer&q=stallman