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[–] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 56 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Being rude doesn't get you too far in OSS.

[–] Seasm0ke@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (4 children)

But uh.. Linus is kinda rude NGL. Part of his charm no?

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 10 points 2 months ago

No, it's not. It's tolerated because of his importance.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Being the creator of the most successful open source project in history gives you a bit of leeway.

Besides, Linus had a major personality change years ago and has since endeavoured to be a lot more polite to people, and it certainly shows.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

~~Spot on. A couple of years ago I wanted him and his channel to be destroyed since he was being such a jerk. Now, not so much. I still don't like him, but he has come a long way in his interactions with people, at least publicly.~~

I'm a moron. Working on not being one much longer.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Channel? I think you may be thinking of the other tech Linus

Or does Torvalds have a channel now

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You are absolutely correct. I was talking about LTT. Sorry. I read everything wrong and didnt even open the link.

[–] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

BDFL privilege...

Cherry picking, but one could argue that rudeness is a lazy general term and Linus' rudeness is about not including BS while NSL wanted the inverse of including something others did to show off. Not an apology for either of those blokes

[–] baduhai@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

BDFL privilege

Big Dick For Life?

[–] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

BDFL is such a weird concept to stem from the late 20th century.

[–] baduhai@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

Ahh, I am familiar with the term, but not the acronym.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

Benevolent dictator for life

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

Hahaha please let this be the official term.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, a lot of long term projects have rude maintainers it seems.

[–] Seasm0ke@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Tbh if I worked for donations and had entitled users expecting me to continue perfecting a hobby indefinitely ID get pretty burnt out, but racism and targeted harrassment would not be included in rudeness if thats what this maintainer was doing

[–] ananas@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 months ago

It's kinda hard not getting jaded when entitled people (or companies) expect commercial grade support for something you work on your free time for pennies or for free, and to top that usually are pretty abusive from the get go.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

What GrapheneOS are you talking about? 🤣