Anonymous
8/14/2025, 8:46:19 AM
No.106255633
>>106244851
He said in a past interview he tried to be nicer and use HR approved language but that led to situations where people mistook his politeness for implicit approval of their ideas for the kernel, even though their ideas were fundamentally flawed, so they wasted months of their time writing code implementing them, only for Linus to eventually completely reject their contribution which led to more hurt feelings and more drama all around. After that Linus decided to be explicit about how he feels to nip awful code and ideas in the bud.
He said in a past interview he tried to be nicer and use HR approved language but that led to situations where people mistook his politeness for implicit approval of their ideas for the kernel, even though their ideas were fundamentally flawed, so they wasted months of their time writing code implementing them, only for Linus to eventually completely reject their contribution which led to more hurt feelings and more drama all around. After that Linus decided to be explicit about how he feels to nip awful code and ideas in the bud.