[CoLoCo] Appropriateness of posts to this list (Was Re: evince crash)

[Neal McBurnett]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 03:15:18PM -0700, Jim Hutchinson wrote:
> On 12/6/07, David L. Willson <DLWillson at thegeek.nu> wrote:
>> I mean, maybe if it was Jim Hutchinson saying the words, but that's
>> only because Jim could find a way to get along with friggin'
>> ~anybody~.
>>
> Well, thanks for the vote of confidence, but just between you and me
> (and the rest of the list) I can be a pain in the ass :)

It's funny - Jim and I were talking in a local bookstore about this
the other day, in the context of a book I was skimming by Linus
Torvalds in 2001:

 Just For Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary by Linus
 Torvalds and David Diamond

There was a GREAT section about how he hates dealing with journalists
who want to talk to him.

This page quotes the section I like:

http://www.mlarson.org/2006/12/26/just-for-fun-review-35/

 The point about open source has never been that I'm more accessible
 than anybody else. It's never been that I'm more accessible than
 anybody else. It's never been that I'm more open to other people's
 suggestions. That's never been the issue. The issue is that even if
 I'm the blackest daemon from Hell, even if I'm outright evil, people
 can choose to ignore me because they can just do the stuff
 themselves. It's not about me being open, it's about them having the
 power to ignore me. That's important.

On google books you can read several pages around the part I'm quoting
from - page 190.

I'd prefer it if Linux wasn't ever "an asshole".  But I don't hold it
against him :-)

Cheers,

Neal McBurnett                 http://mcburnett.org/neal/