[CoLoCo] Appropriateness of posts to this list (Was Re: evince crash)

[Michael "TheZorch" Haney]

I guess he never expected his creation to explode the way it has.

Neal McBurnett wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 03:15:18PM -0700, Jim Hutchinson wrote:
>   
>> On 12/6/07, David L. Willson <DLWillson at thegeek.nu> wrote:
>>     
>>> I mean, maybe if it was Jim Hutchinson saying the words, but that's
>>> only because Jim could find a way to get along with friggin'
>>> ~anybody~.
>>>
>>>       
>> Well, thanks for the vote of confidence, but just between you and me
>> (and the rest of the list) I can be a pain in the ass :)
>>     
>
> It's funny - Jim and I were talking in a local bookstore about this
> the other day, in the context of a book I was skimming by Linus
> Torvalds in 2001:
>
>  Just For Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary by Linus
>  Torvalds and David Diamond
>
> There was a GREAT section about how he hates dealing with journalists
> who want to talk to him.
>
> This page quotes the section I like:
>
> http://www.mlarson.org/2006/12/26/just-for-fun-review-35/
>
>  The point about open source has never been that I'm more accessible
>  than anybody else. It's never been that I'm more accessible than
>  anybody else. It's never been that I'm more open to other people's
>  suggestions. That's never been the issue. The issue is that even if
>  I'm the blackest daemon from Hell, even if I'm outright evil, people
>  can choose to ignore me because they can just do the stuff
>  themselves. It's not about me being open, it's about them having the
>  power to ignore me. That's important.
>
> On google books you can read several pages around the part I'm quoting
> from - page 190.
>
> I'd prefer it if Linux wasn't ever "an asshole".  But I don't hold it
> against him :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Neal McBurnett                 http://mcburnett.org/neal/
>
>   


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