[icecreampain]

If you consider the title of the article, "Rudest man in Linuxdom", you understand very quickly that the article author is imposing their own moral on Linus, but that's OK because the author is a proven programming genius of greater skill than the person who invented Linux, git, etc.

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Oh wait, he isn't. The author of the article is just another "tech blogger" that is interested in page views. So what's more interesting an article to write: one about RDRAND, or one about how mean, naughty and rude that ignorant "Linus Torvalds" person is? The second option will generate more page views so the choice is obvious.

Since the author of the article is quick to criticize Linus and his way of expressing himself, even going so far as to, in a bullet list, sentence Linus to community service for the crime of not being as kind, understanding and tolerant a person as the author, I'm going to do the same.

Hey, article author! If I were king, here's what I would want you to do:

* Write an operating system that is used by millions of people and powers a large part of the Internet (together with BSD and friends).

* Write a distributed CVS that is also used by millions of people.

* Stop writing bullet lists about people.

* Stop trying to attract hits to your tech blog and create something of use to the human species. How about rewriting the graphics support in the kernel or something?

* Criticize what people say, not how they say it.

I'm tempted to go on, but I know that the author has no interest in neither learning nor creating anything, only criticizing other people, so anything I write is for the enjoyment of HN (in addition to mine).

[laumars]

I assume your post was intended to be ironic?

> "Write an operating system that is used by millions of people and powers a large part of the Internet (together with BSD and friends)."

Linux wrote a kernel, not the full OS user land. What's more, most of the code in Linux (the kernel) isn't actually written by him - these days he's job is more that of a maintainer. Not that I'm trying to undermine his achievements - just pointing out that you're making the same exaggerated arguments as the blogger you're condemning.

> " Stop writing bullet lists about people."

You mean like the bullet list you've just written?

> "Stop trying to attract hits to your tech blog and create something of use to the human species."

Again, like you've just done. Let me explain with a little code:

    ($potkettleblack = $_) =~ s/tech blog/forums/;

> "Criticize what people say, not how they say it."

Which would be fine if the whole premise of your argument is complaining about not what the blog said by how the blogger said it.

Don't get me wrong, I have a lot of respect for Torvalds, but your comments were -at best- hypocritical. Though I'd say they were much worse than that as at least the blog in question added some content to compliment their clickbait headline. You've not even touched on the real subject matter of this topic.

[hrjet]

Regardless of how the author has presented his arguments, why don't _we_ focus on the actual arguments? This is getting rather too meta.

Also, what's the use of an open-source OS that is used by millions if it is shrouded in esoteric arguments? I would certainly like Linux developers to better express themselves even if _I_ can't build such a system myself.

[iSnow]

>The author of the article is just another "tech blogger"

So ridiculing him instead attacking his arguments is A-OK but he has to keep silent because Thorwalds is a great coder?

[farresito]

He has the same right as you, as me, and as Linus Torvalds to criticize something. There are better programmers than Torvalds out there that are not as successful as he is, and the other way around.

[chris_wot]

Excellent trolling. Now lets everyone ignore this post.

[zamalek]

The author makes an argument that is somehow both adhom and slippery slope. By pointing out something that everyone knows (Torvalds is rude, which not necessarily a bad thing depending on who you ask) he adds weight to his second argument about /dev/random being insecure (which is complete bollocks). I christen this logical fallacy the "Ducklinism".

And I have to agree with you about his obvious lack of expertise in the department. Where he fails to make a compelling article is not his lack of expertise, rather the lack of interviewing many people who do have that expertise.

[zeckalpha]

> * Stop writing bullet lists about people.