Linus Torvalds Leadership

You need to understand one thing: you are wrong.Linus Torvalds is not a bully. He's in charge of one of the biggest and most successful project out there. And this project is open-source, and anyone can contribute to it. Anyone. Even your cat. Imagine the Windows codebase being opened to anyone, with anyone being able to suggest fixes and send patches, or ask questions, or make suggestions.You do not want any idiot to commit insane things. You need to have some barriers. And these bar

Disagree. It seems like Linus’ acerbic and direct means of communicating is the only thing keeping garbage code out of the kernel. He’s also made his views on “why not be nicer” well known. People need to get over it - his project, his rules.Plenty of other projects out there to hack on if getting yelled at when you disengage your brain is too much. Most of which don’t have the obsession with not breaking stuff for the end user...

Does this happen in other open source software projects? My understanding is that Linus Torvalds was pretty opinionated as well. Linux is better off for it.

Linus disagrees.https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56546...

Linus disagrees. https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/GPbJZX8fmtL

Eh, it's no longer allowed to voice discontent in public once Linus has spoken? What a bizarre thing to say. This is never how kernel dev worked, or indeed, how most projects work. Linus is not and has never been a "I have decided, now everyone heed my edict"-type of BFDL.A long-term contributor with a great deal of investment in the project phrased things in the moment in a way that perhaps wasn't too brilliant (he was clearly emotional/nervous/whatever, as can

In the early days, Linux was not the only open source kernal out there. It's possible that Linus's blunt approach is actually a key factor in Linux's success. Society hasn't yet had long to establish a set of norms for working in distributed teams like this (where the members aren't compelled to do as their told by traditional employment contracts). Maybe he's right and removing the offensiveness would just bog Linux down in endless political games.

This guy is a joke, I don't care if he was next to linus codding the kernel, Linux is not only about usability, and I'm not quoting rms here, you have problems of course, but you have a price to live free of DRM, spyware and lock-in, KDE trinity is a example that no matter what the main devs of a project does, it can be undone by motivated community.

> The maintainers highlighted the problems and the author came back basically with "I don't believe you so let's go with my approach to stay more general" - it's one thing to disagree, it's another to straight up not acknowledge the feedback.Isn't that the Linux kernel in a nutshell?Of the top of my head I can name:- The zram maintainer that's for a few years been blocking the patches that add the zpool api to zram. This would go a long way to

This is a serious concern. If Linus were replaced by someone more pliable/less attentive Linux will have a serious problem.