Lew Wolfgang wrote:
And I, DJA, am surprised that anyone would think it appropriate
for a world-renowned person in the public's eye to resort to
this kind of language to make a point. I've never read Linus
resorting to cheap tricks like this in the past, I wondered
if it was really him.
Then you haven't been following Linus very closely over the years.
Linus has been using: "It's Linux. I control it. I think you are
wrong. Go away." for years.
The main problem is that he does *not* control it all anymore, so that
particular tactic is no longer guaranteed to work. Linus then switches
to profanity to express his intransigence.
Linux needs to go through a growth process where control passes from the
initial founder to a wider audience. All good open source projects
eventually go through that process. Sometimes peacefully (Perl, Tcl/Tk
(sort of peacefully), FreeBSD, NetBSD); sometimes painfully (Emacs, gcc, X).
It's okay. There are other choices.
-a
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