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Comment The Original Story from Coding Horror (Score 2, Informative) 465

by rice_web on Saturday December 20, 2008 @11:51AM (#26183941) Attached to: Hardware Is Cheap, Programmers Are Expensive

Not sure if this site copied Jeff Atwood's post with permission or not, so I'm posting the original link to Coding Horror: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001198.html

Submission + - Linus calls GNOME "limiting"

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lisah

on Friday February 16, 2007 @04:39PM

lisah writes: "The flame wars between Linus Torvalds and the GNOME community continue to burn. Responding to Torvalds' recent claim that GNOME 'seems to be developed by interface Nazis' and that its developers believe their 'users are idiots,' a member of the Linux Foundation's Desktop Architects mailing list suggested that Torvalds use GNOME for a month before making such pronouncements. Torvalds, never one to back down from a challenge, simply turned around and submitted patches to GNOME and then told the list, '...let's see what happens to my patches. I guarantee you that they actually improve the code.' After lobbing that over the fence, Torvalds concluded his comments by saying, 'Now the question is, will people take the patches, or will they keep their heads up their arses and claim that configurability is bad, even when it makes things more logical, and code more readable.'"

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