▲ 393 ▼ The Creator of Git and Linux (thelemmy.club) submitted 5 hours ago by rulray@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world 92 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 41 points 3 hours ago (1 child) Yeah, Linus today is nothing like Linus in the 90s/00s permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] 4am@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 hour ago (1 child) You also have to remember that he made an OS as a hobby project and suddenly everyone wanted to mess with it. It was the Wild West of decentralized project management in those days, I don’t condone any of that unprofessional behavior but I’m also not in the least bit fucking surprised that he had very personal rage-out moments as unsolicited criticism poured in from around the world, constructive and well intentioned or not. That’s a lot of unexpected pressure. He got better, which implies to me that he wants to be a good person; and that’s all we can really ask of anyone. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Mikrochip@feddit.org 2 points 1 hour ago True that. Andrew Tanenbaum dissing on Linux in the early days just because it didn't conform to his ideals of a microkernel is sufficiently uncomfortable to read, imo. It's not like Linus kept anyone from making their own open source kernel. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 hour ago (1 child) You also have to remember that he made an OS as a hobby project and suddenly everyone wanted to mess with it. It was the Wild West of decentralized project management in those days, I don’t condone any of that unprofessional behavior but I’m also not in the least bit fucking surprised that he had very personal rage-out moments as unsolicited criticism poured in from around the world, constructive and well intentioned or not. That’s a lot of unexpected pressure. He got better, which implies to me that he wants to be a good person; and that’s all we can really ask of anyone. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Mikrochip@feddit.org 2 points 1 hour ago True that. Andrew Tanenbaum dissing on Linux in the early days just because it didn't conform to his ideals of a microkernel is sufficiently uncomfortable to read, imo. It's not like Linus kept anyone from making their own open source kernel. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Mikrochip@feddit.org 2 points 1 hour ago True that. Andrew Tanenbaum dissing on Linux in the early days just because it didn't conform to his ideals of a microkernel is sufficiently uncomfortable to read, imo. It's not like Linus kept anyone from making their own open source kernel. permalink fedilink source parent
