[ferfumarma]

> Linus only got an opinion once things blew up on social media which proves that social media works which is the exact opposite of what he claims.

That is really an apt point. You can't condition people one way, and tell them to do the opposite.

[bigiain]

And it's not _that_ long ago since Linus was King of the arrogant and rude flame posts on what's effectively hos own "social media", the linux kernel mailing list.

10 years back, Linus _was_ "that guy". And it worked, extremely effectively, if you measure success by the ability to stamp on someone else's technical contribution by ridiculing them in public instead of making a convincing technical defense of his position in the discussion.

https://github.com/corollari/linusrants

[account42]

You can expect professionals to not act like trained monkeys.