Has anyone shown this to Torvalds? I feel like it might open his eyes to some things...

@jordyd Linus is in a position where he's gotten away with being an asshole for so long that demanding that he change is a non-starter.

@starbreaker

@jordyd
He is like that for a reason.

tl;dr He was once too nice and did someone not tell "your code is shit" so this guy continued to work on it.

His commits got rejected several times but he still kept going until someone finally said that they have no use for his code, no matter how much he works on it.

This guy then later tried to commit suicide and then Linus said he should have been harsher in the beginning to make clear that his code is not wanted

@Vamp898 @starbreaker when was this

@jordyd @starbreaker
It is easy to say Linus Torvalds is an asshole but there are almost no examples that shows off him as an asshole.

Even the guy who tried to commit suicide, he never made an unfriendly statement to him, the opposite.

Its that some people are just pussies... if you say "This code is bad" they already get offended, even if you tell them afterwards how to improve.

They are like "i dont like you, you said the truth".

But i think thats mostly an american thing

@Vamp898 @starbreaker there are many examples of him being an asshole though? Like he's said many times "this code is shit", etc

@Vamp898 @starbreaker there's an entire subreddit full of examples at /r/linusrants

@jordyd @starbreaker
I had to make a break to laugh when i read "there is a subreddit" :D like if that shows anything :D

But thats typical for reddit. Background is not important, truth neither. Sell you grandma for a few seconds of internet fame.

Out of context you can make everyone seem like an asshole, but that is still not the truth and a bunch of retards on reddit don't change that.

Take those examples and read them on context on lkml and you'll see its different