On: A Case Study in Not Being a Jerk in Open Source

[UncleMeat]

People have done science to answer your last question. In general the answer is no.

[davidkuhta → UncleMeat]

Do you have any references? I'd be interested to read them.

[hitekker → davidkuhta]

I took note of the “Mr torvalds or Mr Rogers” example. It was clever and I think the truth underlying it is that for an idea to survive its circumstances, it must be shepherded by certain kinds of personalities.

[davidkuhta → hitekker]

Exactly.

I'll add, you accurately used the word shepherded and I thought, "I imagine there are times when sheep aren't too pleased to be handled by a crook". Maybe the Kernel Mailing List is Linus's crook...