Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 7th Feb 2008 22:47 UTC, submitted by tyrione
Linus Torvalds, leader of the cult of Linux, took a swipe at Apple's OS X and Microsoft Vista in the same breath at a conference in Australia last week. Speaking at the linux.conf.au conference in Melbourne, Australia, a few weeks ago, Torvalds called Leopard 'utter crap' and bashed the proprietary OS makers for being greedy, according to Australian reporter Nick Miller in the The Age. "I don't think they're equally flawed - I think Leopard is a much better system," Torvalds said. "(But) OS X in some ways is actually worse than Windows to program for. Their file system is complete and utter crap, which is scary." He also scoffed at his rivals' practice of revenue-through-renewal by launching upgrades that require new purchases. "An operating system should be completely invisible," Torvalds said. "To Microsoft and Apple (it is) a way to control the whole environment - to force people to upgrade their applications and hardware."
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I'm tired of this, sincerely. I sometimes think Linus wants other people to see him as a rebel -- in fact with his 'phrases' he speaks like a 15-year old teenager.
I don't like Microsoft too much, I don't like Apple too much, o.k, but if you (supposedly) are a scientific, or at least you try to think like the leader of a project the complexity of the Linux kernel, you can't say things like "X is utter crap". And i'm approving his right of free speech of course, but I can't approve his frequent void phrases. Give a scientific view why X is "utter crap" (without saying that explicitly) and why a thing or theory you propose is superior. That's science. With cult or religion we are going back 500 years, and we are talking about Computer SCIENCE.
Thank God that true scientists exist out there in the industry with intelligent views. With Linus views we are not going forward -- he likes to be the Pope.