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Re:Linus on "acting professionally" by sanoli on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @09:34AM (#6051730)
If he wasn't communicating through emails, it probably would have been considered as going too far already. And he probably doesn't rant the same way when talking face-to-face with others, or when dealing with people outside of the tech/Linux community.
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Re:Linus on "acting professionally" by grannyg00se on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @12:01PM (#6052729)
Not so sure. Didn't he tell an entire company to go fuck themselves and throw them the middle finger on public video?

And as a bonus, I think it resulted in a positive outcome.

http://www.ubergizmo.com/2012/06/nvidia-addresses-linus-torv...

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Re:Linus on "acting professionally" by sanoli on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @02:07PM (#6059173)
You just proved my point. He wasn't talking face to face with an Nvidia engineer and told him "hey, you suck, fuck you!". He acts like this behind email and a video camera. Maybe he can behave the same way face to face in his very civilized Finland, I don't know. Where I'm from, he would probably get beat-up.
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