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 <[email protected]> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
