Linus On Diversity and Niceness In Open Source

Posted by timothy on Saturday January 17, 2015 @04:07AM from the are-you-or-have-you-ever-been dept.

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"."

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Microsoft was right by Anonymous Coward · 2015-01-17 05:36 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Linux sucks. And Microsoft Windows is the way of the future. The idea of convergence is genius. True Windows 8 botched it up a bit, but Windows 10 will be the most amazing OS ever, with your phone and PC and entertainment systems so perfectly integrates that it will feel like the future.
Visit www.microsoft.com to learn more about the future of PCs and phones. And btw Linux sucks ass. They don't even have a phone OS yet (Android is Google's, not open source like Linux)