Every single Linux user is a excuse for Linus's behaviour, being it childish or not.

I agree with you that working to Linus can be a harsh, very harsh way of earn your living. But yet, no one is forced to do so.

Are you pissed off with Linus? Walk away.

Don't condone Linus behaviour? Use FreeBSD on your box or IOS/WP on your phone.

Or fork the Kernel and do the job yourself. :-)

I suggest Redmond. I think he will be fine around there. :-)

1GB RAM, SATA interface and a 1.5GHz x64 core.

You can easily setup a cheap server or media center with tools you already knows, using a 2 or perhaps 4TB Hard disk and put the thing *INSIDE* the HD case.

One size doesn't fits all!

(and that 2GB RAM with dual core sounds yet more interesting)

But it's not a good teacher.

I don't live in USA. I don't even speak English with naturality (as you probably had noticed). I can only search for information I already knows that exist.

For example, I would easily find a page stating Obama's opposition to gay marriage without realizing that he changed his position on the matter after. ShangaiBill probably saved me from a gafe, as I was going to repeat that (misguided) initial information on a public discussion on a local site.

yeah... this is kind of a typing tic I'm trying to overcome.

For some reason, I type the following "is" after the "what's" - curiously, it appears only after the "what's" - I don't do it after "where's", for example.

Thanks for pointing that. This can help to overcome that @#$%@%@$$ twitch.

I agree. Being that the reason I put that "perhaps" word in the phrase - didn't you noticed it?

This is a very good question to ask Linus on an interview, don't you think?

Do you have some links to back your words? For us, that live outside USA, these facts are not easily verifiable - we lack the context you have while trying to separate what's is real news from what's is pure propaganda.

And this is good.

Quote from the Linus email:

Being Kay a Red Hat paid developer, perhaps it's not his entirely fault what's happening. But it's his name on the table, so it's his responsability nevertheless.

Unfortunately, thet aren't.

It's not what they're saying.

But some others agrees with you, namelly Nicholas Negroponte.

Let's see what time has to say about it.

Yes and no. People does donate with something in mind. And they want this state of mind enforced.

You don't donate money to homeless if they're going to buy booze, do you? Most of us don't donate money to them even if we're sure they're going to buy food. Why?

With Kickstart it's the same thing. The guys can be right under the Law, but they have to face the public opinion about the matter. Kickstarters are feeling ripped off, and since they were the very simple reason Oculus managed to get a 2 Billion USD company, it's God Damned Good to spend a good fraction of this money trying to explain themselves - and perhaps, giving something interesting back to these guys.

Bad P/R can be good just to politicians.

It's not what they're saying.

And exactly how much is the kickstarter's share on these fabulous USD 2 Billions?

Because, you know, was the kickstarter's money that funded the company until now. What's on this for them?

BULLSHIT

The kickstarters were ripped off. Simple like that.

They take the risks by using their money funding an idea. Now Facebook buys for themselves a successful product, and the kickstarters aren't getting any reward from that. Not a single one had agreed on a "Facebook Oculus".

I don't think the problem is the "social", but the way Facebook does "social".

Why one would use Facebook (and pay him a share of his incoming) to allow his users to play his games?