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Comment by bjornsteffanson | Hacker News Reader

As a Swede, it seems to me he's just acting Swedish.

Actually, it's the opposite.

"This is specifically contrasted to the Swedish consensus decision-making, where the manager makes sure that everyone involved has been heard before decisions are taken."

Ergo the "management by perkele" - as a Swede, you probably know what perkele is ;-)

More about it here; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management_by_perkele

Also acted out in this commercial; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8_7yPocGPg

Ah, I think you may be right on that one. Perhaps more accurately we could say he was just acting Scandinavian. :)

This is something I've heard repeatedly about Linus; that his communication style is really pretty typical for a Scandinavian.

Same. A (Finnish speaking) Finn I know likes to brag to me about this.

…or as if he spent some time in Berlin. Really, nothing particularly rude/big/abusive/bullying.

As another Swede I would say he is acting rather Finnish. Though he would not be out of place in Sweden either, our countries are not that different.

Sorry to break it to you, but he was born in Helsinki. Edit: OK I guess this is more complicated than I thought :)

True, though Linus was a part of the Swedish speaking minority in Finland.

Geographically, sure. Culturally - not at all.

Yes, I believe another Finnish Swede active in this scene is somewhat more culturally Swedish - Monty Widenius, founder of MySQL/MariaDB.

On the other hand Linus' father is a Member of the European Parliament for Swedish People's Party of Finland, and was until 2011 the party vice chairman. But he (Nils) has been quite relaxed about things like mandatory Swedish education, which most Finnish Swedes dearly cling on to.

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