Man feel bad for the guy getting yelled yet
I think whoever recieved this would be completely fine to report Linus to HR or something. The fact somebody thought to circulate it is suggestive that it crossed a line. I do appreciate he does seem to really care about the kernel. He could maybe tone down the hysterics a little.
I think if there's a lesson here its "Never hit send while you're angry" always wait until your hormones to subside before sending an email because emails are records and people don't have good judgement while angry, so an email sent in anger is just a record of your poor judgement.
This is far from the first (or last) time he wrote something like this. This was just a regular thing in the kernel world for a long time (until Linus matured a little).
Whether or not it was a good thing is up for debate I think. Yeah, it's very rude and unprofessional (and discourages new contributors who don't want to risk getting chewed out), but considering the importance of the Linux kernel, it's good to know the lead maintainer is doing too much of the right thing than not enough (i.e. being lax with bad code in order to be respectful). I'm fine knowing that a few tech workers got their egos smashed if it gives me confidence that the code powering civilization is high quality.
Fucking Mauro.
Randomly blaming pulseaudio and opensuse when talking about 100% CPU usage by KDE. It seems yes.
Stuff like this is the reason Linus decided to take a sabbatical back in 2018 to work on controlling his temper.
I'll be that guy: I miss the old Linus. If I fucked up that badly I'd want to know I had fucked up that badly.
One does not simply break userspace. You'll receive more than just angry bug reports. There are restless maintainers who will not sleep. And the great corporations are ever watchful.
I would not work with or even for someone with such an attitude, not even for money. Ok, do it yourself, bye. Got better places to be.
Poor Mauro: they weren't good at what they loved, they blamed others for their failings, and their community leader was nuts.
Jokes aside, we've already got toxic right there. Linus isn't right, but someone like that would be fired with good cause. It's one thing to make a mistake, it's quite another to blame your co-workers for your own shoddy work.
What's that Reddit phrase? ESH!
How sad to be working on a Sunday and two days out before Christmas.
Wouldn't lift a finger for less than triple time.
Hint: :q!
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