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I never really understood why people complain about Linus personality. If you don't like it go somewhere else nobody is forcing you to code for Linux.

Fork it and make your own.

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Linus shows this behavior more rarely rather than often (about once a month) and usually in the direction of people he knows can take a bit of a rant.

Yeh, I get the impression he does it with people he would have a beer with.

> Fork it and make your own

Even Google couldn't pull that off with Android.

Another question is would Linux become what it's become if everyone would really have just forked it?

Another question is would Linux become what it's become if only nice polite guys were allowed to code it?

That's irrelevant, nobody's talking about allowing or not allowing to participate, but accepting help while insulting the helpers, seems disgusting to me and I really find it weird that some people readily accept that while demanding respect and politeness in other situations. Double standards – that's what it is.

I don't see him here "insulting the helpers". He's saying the argument for this change is bad, he's saying a bunch of things in the C standard are bad, but there's nothing personal there.

Then you do not understand the whole point of asking this question. Its speculative whether the counterfactual "Linus is nice to everyone"-Kernel would be better or worse. Both options are possible. Like everywhere in capitalism, just being nice and doing the right thing must not always select you as a winner...

> ... if everyone would really have just forked it?

well, if you can keep pace with it, why not ?

Just wait and see.

https://www.techradar.com/news/google-fuchsia

That's less "fork Linux" (which Google found to be unmaintainable, not to mention non-ideal from a licensing standpoint) and more "screw you guys, we're making our own kernel with blackjack and hookers".

Right, but why does an adult have to behave like a spoiled little princess anyway?

It's actually like a rough drill sergeant.

"Spoiled little princesses" are those that can't take some strong words and need hugs and smiles...

It's also people who throw fits with little provocation when they don't like things, which sounds fitting to me. Seriously, the thing gets merged anyway but he has to "express himself"

I found your post aggressive. Will you please change it to appease me?

I see what you're doing, and it doesn't make any sense. I just said I didn't like a pointless display of emotion, and so you do a "satirical" emotional appeal?

Funny, that people adore when Linus does it, but dislike when somebody else does that to Linus... Okay, whatever.

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