alt Hacker NewsWhat a ridiculous comment. Here's a small sample of Torvalds being an ass.
https://github.com/corollari/linusrants/blob/master/table.md
Someone who doesnt see a problem with this is probably one of those toxic people who dont realize they're toxic you mentioned. Nobody wants to be treated how Torvalds treated people.
Also, coming from an orchestral background, I'm well aware of situations where the leader needs to be gruff. A gentle conductor will never get the idiot violists playing in tune. (A harsh one won't either, but at least the violists will be too scared to make any noise.) That said, it's still unacceptable for a conductor to cross the line from gruff to personal attacks.
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> What a ridiculous comment
I wonder if starting a comment by despising the parent is just being gruff or it leans on personal attack...
Culture that gave world "microagression", "harasment", cancel culture and now numeric "hate". "Not toxic".
> Nobody wants to be treated how Torvalds treated people.
Exactly, nobody wants but so many can't stop until treated.
> Stop this "we can break stuff" crap. Who maintains udev? Regressions are not acceptable. I'm not going to change the kernel because udev broke, f*ck it. Seriously. More projects need to realize that regressions are totally and utterly unacceptable. ... That just encourages those package maintainers to be shit maintainers. ... And stop blaming the kernel for user space breakage!...
Hate 0.832673044602
For common sense.
You and your entire family at least 5 generations back and all your family's offspring, should be put to death.
The Linux kernel literally affects billions of people. Lots of lives indirectly depend on the Linux kernel. And you want to allocate as little pain as possible to yourself while happily causing pain on billions of people and many innocent and good lives lost. You prioritize 2 hours of pain for you above millions of hours or more of pain for others and many lives lost.
Jump off a tall building. Linus was undeniably infinitely too polite for un-creatures or anti-creatures like you. And you are well aware of it.
I find the debates about his toxicity to be essentially pointless, especially since he's not in an employer employee relationship with the people he works with.
Nobody has to work with him, and you chose not to. You don't contribute your kernel patches because you don't like the guy. And that's fine, and I even agree with your assessment that he's been abrasive.
On the other hand, it's his project. He does get to be dictator of his own project and the philosophies behind it. This is the beauty of open source: unlike proprietary software where money and power is everything, everyone is free to fork the kernel and stop dealing with him. In the open source world there are a long list of forks that have turned out to be more popular than their original projects.
The other beautiful thing about open source in this arrangement is that the people he's being a jerk to are people he has an employer power dynamic over.
If my boss is a jerk to me, yeah, that really sucks, because if I get fired my family doesn't eat. I'm forced to interact with that person, at least for a time.