Is some kind of smear campaign against Torvalds going on? For some reason I’ve been seeing a lot of this old stuff make the rounds. This one is actually quite harsh (the “moron” bit) and I don’t particularly agree with the hard-wrapping, but I detest the indignation and moral panic that invariably follows… I also detested it back then, but it’s especially disgusting now that he’s mellowed out a bit.
Torvalds does not really need any help from a smear campaign to come off as abrasive. He is as he is, one of a multitude of different kinds of engineers (indeed, people) one can find I the real world.
(2012)
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Is some kind of smear campaign against Torvalds going on? For some reason I’ve been seeing a lot of this old stuff make the rounds. This one is actually quite harsh (the “moron” bit) and I don’t particularly agree with the hard-wrapping, but I detest the indignation and moral panic that invariably follows… I also detested it back then, but it’s especially disgusting now that he’s mellowed out a bit.
Torvalds does not really need any help from a smear campaign to come off as abrasive. He is as he is, one of a multitude of different kinds of engineers (indeed, people) one can find I the real world.