Re: Linus is on a powertrip..

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 3 Oct 1998 19:25:06 +0100 (BST)


> IMO, a cursory examination of the history of *BSD politics, stalled
> development and splits reveals that one of the most harmful delusions in the
> *BSD world is that it is some sort of democracy.

You don't need to single out BSD for that. Give or take a bit of handwaving
Linux, Apache and *BSD are a Meritocracy. Its also better to think of Linus
as the QA manager from hell. The guy that drives every programmer up the
wall but not one of them would wish to be without.

As to "power trip". You can accuse Linus of being a bad delegator, or a poor
manager perhaps but I don't think its an ego trip. Letting go of something
you created, spent several years of your life on and polished to your own
vision of perfection cannot be easy.

Alan

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