3 Jul
2024
3 Jul
'24
9:36 p.m.
On Wed, Jul 03, 2024 at 11:22:14AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
There are lots of people who will complain
about Linus Torvalds' supposed lack of social skills; but his ability
to hold the senior members of the development community together
without having the sorts of splits that we saw in FreeBSD, NetBSD,
OpenBSD, DragonflyBSD, etc., should be a hint that the story is a bit
more complicated than what is promulgated by the click-baity headlines
out there.
This. I recognized this in Linus decades ago and it's why I switched to
Linux. I was a BSD (aka SunOS) guy big time and I left that because
of what I saw in Linus. I miss BSD a little but am quite happy with
Linux. Say what you will about his rough edges, he's held it together
for a long time. Kudos.
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