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Linus Torvalds calls RISC-V code from Google engineer 'garbage' and that it 'makes the world actively a worse place to live' — Linux honcho puts dev on notice for late submissions, too (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 week ago

And yes, people still need to get a thicker skin.

If you actually read his posts you'd see that most rants come when people fuck up, then brag about it or complain about Linus not getting their garbage and then doubling down in it.

Simply putting these things on Linus being a dick is unfair at best.

You also left out the little detail nowhere thanks to him we now have an open source Linux kernel that is used in more places.... Not going to make a your mom joke.

I'm sure Linus is not the easiest guy to please but I've never seen him go off against some dude who didn't do anything wrong, who didn't say anything back, who wasn't snarky themselves, etc. yeah, Linus is the benevolent dictator for Linux and so far I see him as a hugely positive force and I hope he continues to be for a long time to come.

After him, however, Linux will need democracy to survive, I think.