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I don't think Linus Thorvalds is either very stylish or really an asshole. He might be a bit short fused, but not an asshole.
- Eh, he'd probably agree that he is a bit of an asshole.
  
  He’s definitely a bit of an asshole. I appreciate his propensity to talk shit to people, I enjoy that myself, but he equates intelligence with technical skill and tells people they just need a thicker skin if they don’t like his abuse.
- Eh - I mean, I'm not an asshole all the time, but I can be occasionally. I'm also not very stylish.
  Wait...am I Linus Thorvalds? Nope.
  
  Too late. You outed yourself, Linus
- A bit asshole I see.
- I think he's an asshole¹ but he's not nearly on the same level as Elmo or any other billionaire. Between actually working and contributing, not being as hardcore exploitative capitalist, and not having nearly the same level of hoarded wealth², there's just far less potential for assholery.
  1: Mind, I still value his work, but the way he sometimes treats people reaches into asshole territory for me.
  2: A superficial search suggests a net worth of $50 million. In perspective, that's $0.05 billion, compared to the late Jobs' $10.8 billion (0.5%) or Musk's ~$400 billion (0.01%)
- He might be a bit short fused, but not an asshole.
  He's short fused with volunteers who are donating time to his project, which makes him an asshole.
  
  The kernel group is not your next corner charity and it's members are highly qualified devs - all of them knowing where they are and the majority paid very well for their work by their employers. Also, it's not that Thorvalds ever arbitrarily picked on someone or kept on picking on anyone because of personal antipathy as assholes use to do. Any of these events was caused by a specific fuckup by the very person that got addresses and they all did the same thing (fuck up, refuse to fix,. let someone else take the resulting damage) they were explicitely warned not to do. I do have quite a lot of understanding for individual fuckups - they just happen under the right combination of shitty circumstances but I'd be the last one to complain if I'd get F-bombed if I'd be the one to blame. Interestingly none of the addressants complained either. It's always been third parties/media to scandalize these for their own reasons.

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