Reply to post: Re: So?

Having offended everyone else in the world, Linus Torvalds calls own lawyers a 'nasty festering disease'

Donkey Molestor X

Re: So?

counterpoint: ken and dmr built Unix, the very system he has made a mere clone of, and they managed to build it without being assholes.

counterpoint the 2nd: Eldon Hall, Margaret Hamilton, et al. working on the AGC weren't fucking assholes and nevertheless the Apollo missions were wildly successful.

assholery is neither a necessary, nor sufficient condition for genius. Linus will be bypassed when more people see through the bullshit and understand that Linux succeeds despite him and not because of him.

Oh... mention to him how he wouldn't have anything around the kernel without the FSF and watch him blow steam out of his ears. That can be fun.

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