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Seigo: ending the cults of personality in free software

Seigo: ending the cults of personality in free software

Posted Nov 22, 2012 16:16 UTC (Thu) by TRauMa (guest, #16483)
In reply to: Seigo: ending the cults of personality in free software by kh
Parent article: Seigo: ending the cults of personality in free software

What? Usability? Because the linux kernel certainly won a whole slew of user interface awards? Or the first versions of git (shudder)?

To this day it puzzles me why anyone took Linus this seriously when he argued about user interfaces. His track record in userspace is, well, mixed, to be polite.


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Posted Nov 22, 2012 17:30 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

At least he has userspace interfaces covered.

Seigo: ending the cults of personality in free software

Posted Nov 23, 2012 14:45 UTC (Fri) by kh (subscriber, #19413) [Link]

[quoting] _besides his usefulness as a developer_

I can't decide if you suffer from poor reading comprehension, or if you intended to respond to some other post. (Not that I agree with your conclusions nor assertions in isolation either.)

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