Linus Torvalds is known for his "peppery" language of and for the take-no-prisoners approach to Linux developers. If you do something wrong, he won't be afraid to let you know you're an idiot.
His behavior can bring results, but it also drives away many talented programmers. It also leads to a culture of development where such harsh attacks are tolerated, and apparently endorsed by some.
But Linus Torvalds realized that he was hurting both the development process and his fellow developers. So he announced that he was moving away from the Linux developer community to change his personal behavior.
Torvalds, as we mentioned yesterday, also approved a new "code of conduct" for Linux kernel developers. Of course, no one expected to experience such changes.
There have been two notable developments in recent days: Torvalds realized he was hurting his colleagues, made it public, and is trying to find ways to deal with it.
It's rare; Just think of your family, friends and colleagues. How often do they admit their mistakes, apologize and try to change? Also rare is that anyone in her industry apologized technology.
No one knows if Linus Torvalds is a good guy. We know what he says because everything he says about Linux is listed in the mailing list Kernel Mailing List (LKML) of Linux.
But none of us see what goes on behind the closed doors of technology companies. We know there are/were great tech leaders like him Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Gary Kildall and John Carmack (creator of Doom) that arrogance and rudeness were no stranger to their everyday lives.
Of course, this is no excuse for Torvalds' behavior. No one can do everything perfectly. Errors in the code are everywhere and the work it's up to the developers to fix them. As with faults in one's behavior, no one is perfect. We are all different, but how many of us realize that our behavior is hurting us and try to change it?
On the other hand we might think that this particular Torvalds crisis of conscience is too good to be true. So we will have to wait and see how it goes.
Like Jono Bacon, a leading community strategy consultant, He wrote:
It's easy to forget that Linux was started by a quiet kid at his university in Finland. It's important to remember that because Linux is scaled, Linus is unable to support it. A code has errorare difficult to detect and restore in humans. Of course you can't just develop a solution right away, it takes some time to identify the problem to promote and develop a change. Let's support the people who wish to change and let's not repeat the mistakes of the past: it will get us nowhere
Will Torvalds be able to do it? I hope so. But even if he did not succeed, he taught a lesson to the arrogant leaders of technology.
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In my humble opinion he is the one responsible for the fragmentation of Linux into communities, desktops - distributions and workgroups.
Yes, it clearly started something "different" and good. But that does not make it a good situation manager.
After all, what more would a Linux enemy cause the Microsoft community to outweigh?
Arrogance and authoritarianism are bad advisers you love Linus. Ή good allies of the enemies of your creations…