Real men doing dangerous work
Easy to complain about the attitude of these men doing linux kernel. It is difficult work in an unforgiving and highly complex environment, where every mistake can have subtle and far reaching consequences. Kernel code runs unprotected in memory, if it crashes the system crashes, and even small addressing errors can introduce hard to find problems in seemingly unrelated components.
People doing work in such environments indeed tend to develop such attitudes to protect themselves against strangers outside the group, because mistakes of others can create serious trouble for them too. Implicating that they would select people on descent is sickening, that man complaining about Linus should perhaps do something useful for Linux instead of complain about its creator.
In the end the world got stable Linux for free on several processor architectures, compare this to the Intel only offer for $100,- and more per machine, from Redmond, although key loggers from Redmond are a big advantage over Linux which does not have this as a default part of its installation.
So just say thank you, and respect these people. Read the link below for more background information, it gives the idea. http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rni/papers/realprg.html
Biting the hand that feeds IT
