[PLUG] I hadn't heard this before

[Russell Senior]

Fwiw, I went reading through a sample of his corpus on the linux kernel
mailing list (there is an archive of the lkml in, naturally, git
repositories available at lore.kernel.org, dating from circa 1998). I
looked at a sample from circa 1998-2000-ish and then early this year.  I
would encourage those judging him to read a sample for themselves.  In the
sample I looked at of several dozens of his messages, I saw two that were
moderately edgy, mostly complaining about patches where people were, in his
view, imposing a burden on others (in code complexity or prominence) to
satisfy their own local needs, and those two were prominent established
people. The overall impression I got was that his messages tend to include
detailed reasons why he didn't like something, and/or an educational
description of how it ought to be instead.

Again, I encourage people who would judge to read for themselves.


On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 12:01 PM, Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com>
wrote:

> I knew about occasional "put down" kinds of remarks, but didn't know it
> was this intense:
>
> https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/index.ssf/2018/09/
> linux_creator_linus_torvalds_t.html#incart_river_index
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dick Steffens
>
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