From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 01:39:01 GMT Subject: Re: [OT] Shameless troll ;o) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: 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