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."

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Re: Linus's real talent:

[Njorthbiatr]

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.

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Re:Linus's real talent:

[serviscope_minor]

apparently they were just trolls who were trolling Linus by withdrawing their free labour or something.

Not wanting to be sworn at and belittled makes one an SJW. We know SJWs are bad because and useless they represent everything evil in all its forms. Therefore not wanting to be sworn at makes them evil and useless. Since they're useless there's no point having them on the kernel team.

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Anything counter to running round like a headless chicken squawking "SJW SJW SJW" all over the place seems to get modbombed down pretty fast. You're back to +3 now though, so sanity is starting to prevail again. The modbombing crowd are pretty quick off the mark too, so posts tend to spike low before getting modded back up.