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Re:Linus Torvalds on Rust support in kernel by phekunde on Friday April 16, 2021 @06:27AM (#26832051)
You have to understand that the Linux Foundation is using his "rage" as a PR exercise. He was outspoken from the start, even as a kid. His reply to Tanenbaum when he first released the Linux kernel is well know. But the Linux foundation realised that they can capitalise on this "rage" by making it more visible. Any publicity is good publicity, as they say in PR world. Negative news makes more impact than positive news. How many people outside the BSD community know who the lead developers are for BSD OSes? How many of them are interviewed at TED talks[0]? It is all about publicity.

[0] https://www.ted.com/talks/linus_torvalds_the_mind_behind_lin...

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Re:Linus Torvalds on Rust support in kernel by foperator on Friday April 16, 2021 @07:44AM (#26832679)
The Linux Foundation does nothing like that. Linus had been famous before its existence.

On the contrary, they made an example of him and had him recant to further the new corporate substitute religion that is used as a worker suppression tool and that solidifies the power of idle bureaucrats.

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Re:Linus Torvalds on Rust support in kernel by qalmakka on Friday April 16, 2021 @08:56AM (#26833291)
You may argue that OpenBSD's founder Theo de Raadt is arguably not a shy, calm person either, but that hasn't brought to its project the same amount of mindshare and attention Linux has.
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Re:Linus Torvalds on Rust support in kernel by loloquwowndueo on Friday April 16, 2021 @07:03AM (#26832340)
I know about Theo :) ( though the rage pattern also applies there)
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Re:Linus Torvalds on Rust support in kernel by phekunde on Friday April 16, 2021 @07:38AM (#26832633)
I know about Theo as well even though I am not a user on any of the BSD distribution. And that is my point. I knew about him because there was a discussion about him similar to the discussion that happens on rage of Linus. "Squeaky wheel gets the oil" as they say! In this case oil is publicity.
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