From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [OT] Shameless troll ;o) Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 17:39:01 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jan 03 02:39:34 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Etb92-0001pl-Gq for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2006 02:39:24 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750776AbWACBjF (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jan 2006 20:39:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750777AbWACBjF (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jan 2006 20:39:05 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:36542 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750776AbWACBjE (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jan 2006 20:39:04 -0500 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k031d2DZ006376 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Mon, 2 Jan 2006 17:39:02 -0800 Received: from localhost (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k031d118016620; Mon, 2 Jan 2006 17:39:02 -0800 To: walt In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 required=5 tests= X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.57__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.129 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, 2 Jan 2006, walt wrote: > > So -- can I tempt Linus into explaining why he thinks Theo is > 'difficult'? (I admit that my wife has given me a taste for > soap opera and idle gossip. You can blame her for this post ;O) Actually, every time I've met Theo in person (which isn't all that often, mainly at Usenix), he's been quite nice. I just suspect that he's even more opinionated than I am (yes, it's possible), and thinks that everybody who disagrees with him is wrong by definition. Now, admittedly I do that too, so maybe the difference isn't that big after all (and if somebody calls me "difficult", I'd think he's trying to be polite too ;). I think I'm more likely to have areas that I don't care about, and will say "whatever" to than Theo. That may be the _real_ difficulty with him: anything he doesn't care for, he says "no" to. Linus