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> it's always been someone breaking something or something along those lines

Not only is this a complete lie, but God forbid there's a process in place to catch these things instead of verbally abusing your coworkers for making mistakes, which Linus has done himself.

> Imagine every outburst you have is public and pointed to for years to come

You may be surprised to learn that the rest of us don't talk to anyone like this.

> but being hung up over a few incidents over a 30-year time period

That's a great way to make it sound old but he actually gets angrier as time goes on. https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1510.3/02866.html




> You may be surprised to learn that the rest of us don't talk to anyone like this.

The moral superiority is misplaced:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41017195

But I am not surprised. CoC proponents universally do the same as the people they criticize. Only the application of rules is selective.


I'm guessing you didn't read the article? You can't see the difference between someone opening a PR Linus doesn't like and a company actively lying about a security breach? They should absolutely be criticized, but I would not verbally harass a coworker over a PR.

Wild that you both made an account for this and dug through my comments just to comment on a comment on an article you didn't read.


> You may be surprised to learn that the rest of us don't talk to anyone like this.

You do. By outright claiming that I'm lying when I share what I've seen. Of course with no substance to back it up. Let me tell you: I've seen what I've seen. Have I seen an incomplete picture? Almost certainly. Am I wrong? Perhaps. Am I lying? No. Your post is extremely aggressive, pretty darn toxic, and explicitly the sort of stuff that's not appropriate here.

Do better next time. Doubly so if you want to get all high and mighty.


No, you opened with this

> Only those instances make the news. And then get repeated time and time again. It's a super-biased view not at all representative of his day-to-day behaviour.

You certainly can't represent your post as "I've only seen what I've seen" with that opener. You were claiming the OP was spreading misinformation. That is the lie. Which is why I provided an instance of Linus's tirades that doesn't match up with what you said.

Don't call someone "super-biased" and then be surprised when people don't roll over for you.

> Your post is extremely aggressive, pretty darn toxic, and explicitly the sort of stuff that's not appropriate here.

It's ironic that my mild comment is upsetting you while you defend a mans right to say his employees should've been aborted. Is it just because he's famous? Or because you think the employees were being stupid? Have you considered that "doing stupid" is a subjective assessment that people use as a cudgel to act poorly? What if I thought you were doing stupid, could I say the things Linus says?

Here's some more for you: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/6/495




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