Re: [OT] Shameless troll ;o)

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Jan 3, 2006, 01:39 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0601021733070.3668@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <dpcjk7$9tp$1@sea.gmane.org>

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