>True,
people are different. Some people I would like to work with, and some people I
wouldn't (like Linus Torvalds). His argument that >social norms are irreverent to creating software (or
should be) rings pretty hollow, in my opinion.
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Perhaps
there’s some truth in AutoCorrect there
... What, exactly, I
don’t know.
>Collaborating
on software (or
encyclopedias)
is a social process, and basic civility goes a long way towards lubricating
social processes. >I also don't buy Linus's argument that being professional
is being fake. No one is asking Linus to wear a suit and tie and use marketing
>buzzwords. They're just asking him to chill out and not be an asshole. Of
course he's welcome to act out his "normal urges", as he puts >it, but I
don't think he's doing any favors for the cultural health of the free software
movement.
I
really wonder if we’re looking at this backward. It almost sounds from your
interpretation that Linus (whom in fairness I have never met or interacted with,
not least because I’m not a Linux groupie, so I can’t speak to the truth of
this) seems to have founded an open-source software community as a place for
people, uh, “on spectrum” to hang out online and work together on something in
their preferred way, rather than had the idea for Linux and then, well, all
these people just happened to gravitate to it.
Daniel
Case