Linus Torvalds - a classic example of the love-it-or-hate-it type of person. Brilliant programmer, of course, and the father of one of the most extraordinary software projects in the world, but sometimes, he can be utterly arrogant any annoying, yet the other moment completely sensible and utterly spot-on in his statements. CBR listed the ten best Linus Torvalds quotes.
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There are a lot of neat free software projects. If your pet project has a leader who produces amusing quotes, you should make a list of them and submit it.
This is a way of saying that you are dramatically off-topic. Would you like the artible to be changed to read "...father of one of the most extraordinary software projects in the world. BSD ports are another extraordinary project. But sometimes, he..." ? Does that not sound just the slightest bit incredibly stupid to you?
If you feel that linux is not a remarkable project, then I'm sure we would all be fascinated to see you present evidence to that effect. If you feel that there are projects which are more remarkable - you might notice that the article didn't say there aren't - then I'm sure everybody would like to read a quantitative analysis of which open source projects are the most incredible.
And seeing that Linus was the right man in the right place, and made the right decisions to enable free software to really take off, during a time period when BSD was bogged down for years with licensing issues, I know that I would be very interested to learn why he is not, in fact, a big hero.
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Phew - I'm sure everyone must feel better now that you've given them permission to hold personal opinions.
Awww, who took the baby's bottle away?
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Before I get it to it, let me say I am an avid OpenBSD user, I used OpenBSD on several machines exclusively. I personally find it the easiest OS to maintain. I am also willing to use FreeBSD and PC-BSD sometimes, and trying to get a couple people turned onto the next release of PC-BSD.
That being said, so you know what angle I am coming from, "Brilliant programmer"? Ok, if you say so. "father of one of the most extraordinary software projects in the world" ummmmm, what? That sounds like a biased software love-affair. If you want to have a high opinion of Linus, your choice, if you like some of the things he has said over the years, your choice, if you're a Linux fan, again, that's your choice. But sounding like you think he is a big hero of the software world? ummmm no. Statements like that and you're slowly turning parts of this into an opinion piece. You can't be calling his work "extraordinary", while ignoring how revolutionary FreeBSD ports was, how superior the OpenBSD documentation was when it started, or how PF simplified the whole process for writing rules for a firewall in a big way and for packet inspection. Need to level the playing field for what articles get posted.