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Linus On Diversity and Niceness In Open Source
An anonymous reader writes "Linus Torvalds has sent a lengthy statement to Ars Technica responding to statements he made in a conference in New Zealand. One of his classic comments in NZ was: "I'm not a nice person, and I don't care about you. I care about the technology and the kernel — that's what's important to me." On diversity, he said that "the most important part of open source is that people are allowed to do what they are good at" and "all that stuff is just details and not really important." Now he writes: "What I wanted to say — and clearly must have done very badly — is that one of the great things about open source is exactly the fact that different people are so different", and that "I don't know where you happen to be based, but this 'you have to be nice' seems to be very popular in the US," calling the concept of being nice an "ideology"."
All they did was port unix to x86 and give it away for free. Hardly an accomplishment. Not much innovation going on with Linux, other than it's an alternative to paid options for OS's on x86. Linux Developers = we shit in our own nest, so you don't have to.
No, blaming a small sliver like feminism is just taking a potshot.
Well, that and multi-culturalism.
In the US it's the overarching Christian philosophy of don't talk negatively about our idols and beliefs, or we'll throw you out of the tribe.
Except that it's not. And the US isn't the only country with Christian philosophy.