Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off

Re:Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off by sz4kerto on Sunday September 16, 2018 @05:14PM (#18001162)

Do you have relevant examples (or even better, some statistics)? How do you measure this and how do you know if they were assholes or not? I guess you don't have a record of SLT meetings of large companies (as you have access to the emails between Linus and the maintainers).

Leaders of large companies are _usually_ more aggressive, selfish and less agreeable than average people. This is a well-researched topic (and also makes sense intuitively -- leading a Fortune 500 company comes with so unique perks that there's an immense fight for those roles).

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Re:Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off by rocannon on Sunday September 16, 2018 @06:19PM (#18001539)

Ricardo Semler is an example which comes to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Semler

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Re:Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off by parabx on Sunday September 16, 2018 @06:23PM (#18001565)

I'ts not an company per se, but the rust community is fairly big and full of awesome, well mannered and cheerful leaders.

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Re:Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off by Ygg2 on Sunday September 16, 2018 @06:29PM (#18001592)

Wat. I been there and it's a fairly small community.

They do have awesome and well mannered leaders but most are connected to Mozilla.

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