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[–] 46 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I think Linus would agree that he's one of the all-time assholes in world history, but sometimes his heart is in the right place.

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  • [–] [S] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    He has a harsh, no-bullshit way of saying stuff

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'll always take a good person who says bad things over a bad person who says good things.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Same, but luckily those aren't the only two options.

    Torvalds' particular brand of constructive criticism tends to be insulting and demeaning rather than simply "direct". We can acknowledge that without deflecting to worse people.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Yes, we can accept that we're all multifaceted. We contain multitudes. We can love some things about a person, and hate others.

    Difficulties really only arise when we choose to make the broadest judgements into the narrowest categories. The whole must be good, the whole must be bad.

    I hate how brutal he can be. I love how brutal he can be.

    I think people are too obsessed with assigning a binary state to a whole human. It's downright offensive.

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