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Torvalds: I Made Community-Building Mistakes With Linux
electronic convict writes In a Q&A at LinuxCon Europe, Linux creator Linus Torvalds — no stranger to strong language and blunt opinions — acknowledged a "metric sh*#load" of interpersonal mistakes that unnecessarily antagonized others within the Linux community. In response to Intel's Dirk Hohndel, who asked him which decision he regretted most over the past 23 years, Torvalds replied: "From a technical standpoint, no single decision has ever been that important... The problems tend to be around alienating users or developers and I'm pretty good at that. I use strong language. But again there's not a single instance I'd like to fix. There's a metric sh*#load of those." It's probably not a coincidence that Torvalds said this just a few weeks after critics like Lennart Poettering started drawing attention to the abusive nature of some commentary within the open-source community. Poettering explicitly called out Torvalds for some of his most intemperate remarks and described open source as "quite a sick place to be in." Still, Torvalds doesn't sound like he's about to start making an apology tour. "One of the reasons we have this culture of strong language, that admittedly many people find off-putting, is that when it comes to technical people with strong opinions and with a strong drive to do something technically superior, you end up having these opinions show up as sometimes pretty strong language," he said. "On the Internet, nobody can hear you being subtle."
Someone's forgotten their fortan...
Go fuck yourself.
If you were me, you'd be good lookin'. - six string samurai
I thought metric for shitload was fecogram.
I was looking to improve some I/O performance by using aligned buffers and O_DIRECT and ran across this tirade from Torvalds:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2002/5/1...
"The thing that has always disturbed me about O_DIRECT is that the whole
interface is just stupid, and was probably designed by a deranged monkey
on some serious mind-controlling substances"
sudo apt-get remove libncurses
Well no shit, you stupid human some-sex fuck!
and he gave us git
And for that I will never forgive him.
Did you figure that out all by yourself?
How could Poettering be "calling out" Torvalds when systemd is a user land init process?
Linus uses death threats?
Oh, you should hear the way he talks to a slow compiler...
You have the right to remain sentient. If you give up the right to remain sentient, you will be elected to public office
I guess you also believe ... more gun laws reduce crime...
They do. The facts bear it out in both total crime rates per capita and homicide rates per capita.
Whereas a society is just as violent as its culture, mainly created by lieberal MSM...
Then it's quite amazing that societies that only share gun control in common have similar low rates of crime per capita versus the gun-happy USA. Japan, Australia, Sweden, South Korea, etc. all have strict gun control laws. Their crime rates per capita, and especially their homicide rates per capita, are a tiny fraction of the US. And Australia and Sweden share next to nothing in culture with the other two and not that much between themselves either. And none of these facts come from your groan-worthy Faux News mantra about the "lieberal media".
And that's the core of the issue. Linus has better things to do than trying to convince random Red Hat developers he just don't want their crap in his kernel.