Comment by moonchrome
3 years ago
>by god, this is not how you build consensus or a high functioning team
Says you, while criticizing Linus Torvalds from 2012. Who has a better track record of building consensus and high functioning teams ?
3 years ago
>by god, this is not how you build consensus or a high functioning team
Says you, while criticizing Linus Torvalds from 2012. Who has a better track record of building consensus and high functioning teams ?
Says Linus Torvalds from 2018…
> My flippant attacks in emails have been both unprofessional and uncalled for. Especially at times when I made it personal. In my quest for a better patch, this made sense to me. I know now this was not OK and I am truly sorry.
> The above is basically a long-winded way to get to the somewhat painful personal admission that hey, I need to change some of my behavior, and I want to apologize to the people that my personal behavior hurt and possibly drove away from kernel development entirely.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/16/167
He still writes very frankly, but he generally doesn’t resort to personal insults like he did in the past.
That doesn't change his point about building high functioning teams in the past, though. Just that he is capable of adapting to the times. He had 27 years of career leading Linux before 2018. Successful, by any measure.
> Says Linus Torvalds from 2018…
He was successful between 2012 and 2018 with that style. The track record is still there.