Comment Re:Linus is an asshat, imho (Score 1) 1051
I don't buy this, sorry.
A publicly managed project doesn't mean there can't be any notion of private conversations occuring at all. It's also unrealistic. Do you think we hear every single conversation that goes on about Linux and its direction?
Linus could've said everything he said to the guy in private, and even demanded he post a public apology, and the net result would ultimately be the same except that a guy who is quite likely a competent programmer in spite of this snafu (seems odd he would land a kernel gig through just winging it, doesn't it?) wouldn't have been treated like shit. Telling someone to "shut the fuck up" publicly is not productive or professional whichever way you slice it.
You have to assume that there are similar conversations going on all the time in Microsoft, Apple, Google et al when a programmer screws up badly, and their output is ultimately doing as well as if not better than Linux. The argument that Linux is a stronger platform because Linus gets to demolish people in public with no filter doesn't really hold water when you consider Linux is not leading the pack.