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?

> 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.

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.