The Cult of Torvalds has finally cracked: https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/after-years-of-abusive-e-mails-the-creator-of-linux-steps-aside … This was inevitable, and I've been expecting it. You can't be this unprofessional and expect nothing to happen. It doesn't matter who you are, how much money you have, etc. - there are minimum standards of conduct.
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Its a double standard system, you are forced to accept people for who they are, except if they offend you, in which case you can claim to be offended and they have to conform to your standard. If you can't take the heat stay out of the kitchen.
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Its the Assholes of the world that are the inovators, and if it wasn't for this asshole, who freely gave away his project, there wouldn't even be a project in the first place. Also no Apple, no Microsoft, no Automotive industry, no industrial revolution.
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Oh, no twitter, no facebook, no google and a plethra other projects/companies.
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And muzzling the Cerberus of the Linux kernel will lower the quality of the Linux kernel quality and source code, its all down here from now on.
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Linus can feel free to start his own corp and fund development himself. But that's not going to happen. He's not giving away his time for free here. He's just a paid developer of a large-scale decentralized software project. The ones who fund this project have standards.
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He legally can leave and take Linux with him.
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Interestingly, he could fork Linux and start his own company. He totally could do it and investors would line up. But he doesn't.
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