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Torvalds' Secret Sauce For Linux: Willing To Be Wrong (ieee.org)
An anonymous reader writes: Linux turns 25 this year(!!). To mark the event, IEEE Spectrum has a piece on the history of Linux and why it succeeded where others failed. In an accompanying question and answer with Linus Torvalds, Torvalds explains the combination of youthful chutzpah, openness to other's ideas, and a willingness to unwind technical decisions that he thinks were critical to the OS's development: "I credit the fact that I didn't know what the hell I was setting myself up for for a lot of the success of Linux. [...] The thing about bad technical decisions is that you can always undo them. [...] I'd rather make a decision that turns out to be wrong later than waffle about possible alternatives for too long."
ALSA is shit
The only people attention-seeking are SJWs who think the Universe really does spin around them and their feelings. Because god forbid someone gets offended. Clearly we have to censor them so other people can cope with their emotions. Or else gosh darn it we're causing other people irreparable mental harm!
If the response to that has been especially vitriolic and aggressive it's only because they've been equally aggressive in pushing their agenda, and succeeding. It's even infected the military.