[adorno]

Linus Torvalds has a reputation for being extremely derogatory toward anything he doesn’t personally create, or use to create.

Ditto!

It's one of the reasons that I stopped using Linux, or even following development of that OS.

Can't take the arrogance of that man, and of the many Linux followers who worship him as a god.

[DUMBGRUNT]

Torvalds is simply a demigod.

Unlike Gates or Lovelace.

Simply everyone knows that Jobs was Zeus.

I would go with The Woz.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Well, it’s not as though Stallman had enough time to come up with his own Linuxy kernel. Linus is a kernel guy, always was. Linux as a user environment is a misnomer. It should be called GNU. Linus has the right to opine on the impact on his kernel. Don’t like it, get another kernel.

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Linus Torvalds has a reputation for being extremely derogatory toward anything he doesn’t personally create, or use to create.

although it’s quite true that Linux is effectively a cult of personality, in practice Linus is usually right to criticize; in this particular case his criticism is apt. Anyone who dares to work in Linux kernel development knows the score - Linus holds all the cards and he calls the crap out whenever he sees it because everyone trusts him to set the standard. Piss him off at your own risk, hey life’s too short for us to cater to snowflake mega corporations who plop CYA at the top of the todo list.

So far Linux has been the most successful ongoing project in the history of software. And Linus has always had the last word. So if he calls some kernel patch crap I’m certainly going to examine it carefully before I pick it up and try to defend it.

[DUMBGRUNT]

Pls name your OS of choice.

Are you certain that none of the developers owned stock in oil or coal companies?

Any warming deniers?

Any of them ever say anything mean to any females?

How can you be sure?