[H]omer <spam@xxxxxxx> espoused:
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>> ____/ Kier on Wednesday 20 June 2007 10:55 : \____
>>> On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 04:04:19 +0100, [H]omer wrote:
>>>> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>
>>>>> ,----[ Quote ] `----
>>>>> | Linus: I think Tivoization is *good*...
>>>>> `----
>>>>> http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/17/303
>>>>>
>>>>> Quite rude/blunt as usual
>
>>>> Torvalds needs to step down IMHO. People like him should be
>>>> working on proprietary software, since that is apparently what he
>>>> prefers. He should stop poisoning the FOSS food chain with his
>>>> genetically modified ideals.
>
>>> You're cracked.
>>>
>>> This is what he *actually* said.
>
> [snip]
>
> I've seen it, in fact I read the whole (very long) thread, which is
> still ongoing. Torvalds is extremely abusive and dismissive of other's
> ideas, which is entirely the wrong stance for a so-called community
> project leader. Is Linux an open project or a dictatorship? He's losing
> followers left and right with his needlessly vicious comments, and Con
> Kolivas (scheduler improvements) has already quit because of Torvalds'
> dismissive attitude towards his valuable contribution.
>
> At one point Torvalds even denounced Alexandre Oliva (Red Hat engineer)
> as a Troll and plonked him!!! Alan Cox had to intercede on more than one
> occasion and renounce any association with Torvalds opinions. Torvalds
> is completely cutting himself off from everyone. He's become a
> (literally) raving lunatic.
>
>> He used some "Humpty-dumpty" and Alice and Wonderland analogy/fable
>> to refer to the "hippies" (FSF) last week, which I still find
>> disrespectful.
>
> His comments about Gnome were even worse.
>
> AFAICT Linus cares about nothing but himself and his own agenda, he
> should fork the code and go off by himself to play with a proprietary
> kernel, and leave the rest of us to implement a GPL3 replacement.
>
>> He should never forget where he came from.
>
> He seems uncannily like Jörg Schilling, an opportunist who leached off
> the Free Software community, then turned his back on them once he
> realised he didn't really want the software to be Free.
>
He had achieved a significant degree of respect for being able to handle
a wide range of opinions, but it would appear that he's lost that knack.
Of course, having children does change people considerably, so perhaps
this should not be seen as a surprise. Equally, perhaps it is time to
consider a different governance method for the kernel?
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