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Linus on kernel management style
Linus on kernel management style
Posted Oct 6, 2004 17:28 UTC (Wed) by gowen (guest, #23914)Parent article: Linus on kernel management style
Sometimes I think Linus is a better comic/ironic writer than programmer. That's beautifully written.
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Linus on kernel management style
Posted Oct 6, 2004 18:17 UTC (Wed) by The_Pirate (guest, #21740) [Link]
I dunno, but i'm sure he reads "Dilbert"...
Dilbert
Posted Oct 6, 2004 18:53 UTC (Wed) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link]
Yeah, I'm sure I hear shades of "The Dilbert Principle" and "The Way ofthe Weasel" in there.
Linus on kernel management style
Posted Oct 6, 2004 18:36 UTC (Wed) by rdt (guest, #13742) [Link]
Its _much_ better than just "beautifully written". Words to live by.
Linus on kernel management style
Posted Oct 7, 2004 10:00 UTC (Thu) by hingo (subscriber, #14792) [Link]
Amen to that. Granted, I had a few laughs, but the only reason it's funny, or comic or ironic, is when it's just right on the nail.To the posts below, I proudly state that I'm a Swedish speaking Finn too.
Linus on kernel management style
Posted Oct 7, 2004 15:54 UTC (Thu) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link]
Yeah, it was amusing, but... living by the words of Linus isn't much of a life.
Linus on kernel management style
Posted Oct 6, 2004 21:02 UTC (Wed) by antonovich (guest, #25239) [Link]
Nice article, and very well written. Sometimes we forget that he's a Finn... I have been trying for a long time to get that level of subtlety in another language and so far have come up short... He clearly has something!What I want to know is - when do RMS's "Management with Linus" classes start? I would love for hurd to get off the ground but without that linus-factor, I can't see it happening.
Cheers
Antoine
Linus on kernel management style
Posted Oct 7, 2004 1:01 UTC (Thu) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]
He's a Swedish-speaking Finn. Very different breed.I used to deal with engineers from a, well, let's say, a Finnish technology company you probably heard of. Lots of guys who were absolutely silent all the time, you never knew what they were thinking. One very loud guy who would tell me exactly what was wrong with what I was proposing. Like Linus, he was a Swedish speaking Finn. Those guys are far more outspoken than the Finnish-speaking Finns. There are only around 300,000 of them.
Linus on kernel management style
Posted Oct 7, 2004 8:44 UTC (Thu) by climent (subscriber, #7232) [Link]
And _still_ he is a Finn. And he considers himself so, like most of them.