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I think we are at the point where someone just needs to put up a Linus swearing email tracker with analytics and shit and stop posting these threads. We have to come to the realization that the discussion on this is:

a) useless- doesn't change anything b) the publicity is affecting the other side more

So basically Linus is Trump

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I really love that he is the way he is. Smart and honest. Nothing like Trump.

Not sure what the word "smart" means but he is surely pragmatic and based on such emails looks like he gets easily frustrated.

He gets frustrated with people that are supposed to be experts but that don't match up to that in practice (in his eyes at least)

Nobody is expert and everybody makes mistakes. He should probably lower his expectations.

You don't write Kernel and maintaining quality by keeping low expectations.

"Smart and honest" is literally the justification Trump voters would usually employ.

Oh, that's cute. The mere fact that you say that makes it clear you have no idea who Trump is.

A celebrity who speaks with a highly authoritative voice whether they have any idea what they're talking about or not. Sounds about right.

Do you have a link to where Linus talks in a highly authoritative voice when he has yesn't idea what he's talking about? All the cases I've seen where he's talking in an authoritative voice have been about topics he's an expert in.

I mean, just google anytime he talks about security or licensing. And, frankly, people more expert on, say, C, than Torvalds, are dime a dozen. Okay, a large heap of dimes, but still. They just tend to swear less, and in the OP you can see them defering to him to deescalate the situation.

It's not interesting to argue about who's "more expert". If Linus is just "slightly expert", that's very far away from having no idea what he's talking about. My claim wasn't that Linus was the "expertest" C programmer in the world.

I'm neither an expert in security nor in licensing, most of the things I've heard him say about either sounds pretty reasonable. Could you link to an example where he talks out of his ass, and explain why what he's saying is stupid? Both licensing and security strikes me as the kind of thing the author of the world's most used FOSS kernel has thought a lot about.

Linus invented Linux and git. He very much is qualified to talk about his oppinion on aliasig rules. Frankly, anyone who has worked in C is. But, if we're going to play the call to authortiy game: who the fuck are you and what have you done?

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