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