Torvalds isn't always nice, but developers don't care | Linux Today

Torvalds isn’t always nice, but developers don’t care

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Matt Asay
Feb 25, 2015

Linus Torvalds doesn’t care if you like him, and it sometimes shows. Torvalds has been known to execrate would-be Linux contributors. If he disagrees with your approach, you’re going to hear about it, and not always very nicely.

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