Linus: People take me much too seriously, I can't say stupid crap anymore

Re:Linus: People take me much too seriously, I can't say stu... by mbrumlow on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @02:40PM (#19566002)

Expect you are wrong. Its like having a party of 20,000 guest over and a hand full of them are complaining. I have read enough comments to know that nowhere the majority of people seem to care what Linus says.

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Re:Linus: People take me much too seriously, I can't say stu... by eropple on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @02:42PM (#19566011)

Enough seem to have a problem that Linus thinks that, to be a better and more effective leader, he has to improve his behavior. Nobody made him do it. He listened and reflected and changed. That's what a decent leader, and a decent human, does.

Why does that have you, to use a Linus-ism, so hot under the T-shirt?

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Re:Linus: People take me much too seriously, I can't say stu... by mbrumlow on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @03:14PM (#19566306)

I don't buy that for a second. I think Linus is smart, and knows there is a mob out there ready to enforce and pounce for language they don't like.

Its odd, that people keep saying this. He is the leader of one of the largest most successful projects mankind has seen. He has the most diverse portfolio from around the world. But yet, some how what he has done has not worked, and is not working...

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Re:Linus: People take me much too seriously, I can't say stu... by eropple on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @11:06PM (#19569001)

Linus has always struck me as a decent guy. Decent people look at what they're doing and decide if it's actually the way they want to live their lives. The cynicism in your take speaks more to you than to him.

And the rest of your post blows my mind--the idea that something can work and yet be imperfect, can work and yet can be better, is so foreign to you?

Me, I'm always trying to improve. Why shouldn't he?

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Re:Linus: People take me much too seriously, I can't say stu... by mbrumlow on Thursday April 04, 2019 @01:37PM (#19574988)

> something can work and yet be imperfect.

I never said it was perfect, I just commented on what he was doing was worked well considering the goals of the project.

> can work and yet can be better, is so foreign to you?

Absolutely not, I just think the methods being used to achieve the "better" in question is actively making it worse.

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Re:Linus: People take me much too seriously, I can't say stu... by eropple on Thursday April 04, 2019 @03:31PM (#19576228)

And yet you immediately discount the notion that Linus might thing that it's...not making it "worse".

Which I find kind of interesting, you know? He might just actually know what's going on in his own head.

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