Either the environment is civil and professional or it is not. You can't say, "It is UNLESS..." and then mention something that could conceivably happen in the course of a normal working week.
>times who are learning or do not claim to be experts
That makes no sense. If _Linus_ thinks you should know better is not the same as "they claim to be experts". According to you, who has claimed to be an expert and demanded that Linus should listen to them?
>and has a _huge_ ego.
Sounds a lot like Linus Torvalds.
>I have an ego the size of a small planet, but I'm not _always_ right
>I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First Linux, now git.
>I'm always right. This time I'm just even more right than usual.
All direct quotes from him.
>I've seen Linus handle people numerous times who are learning or do not claim to be experts and he is always respectful, civil and a lot less blunt.
People who are sometimes rude to others can also be sometimes nice to others. This is not surprising in the least.
It might be a quick way to blunt innovation in both. Or not. I dunno; people are complicated.
I've seen Linus handle people numerous times who are learning or do not claim to be experts and he is always respectful, civil and a lot less blunt.
Not to mention the fact that when Linus is shitting on people it's often because they broke something for the "user"[0].
Lennart is not this way, he breaks userspace, he breaks norms and has a _huge_ ego. He conducts himself as if him and his crew are the only good programmers in the universe.
That is quintessentially _not_ the same as Linus.
[0]: User is a broad definition here, but it covers userspace programmers.