Torvalds: Standards need to be questioned
He's probably right, but he expresses his ideas so poorly that he turns straightforward points into drama, I think intentionally. He doesn't just not give a shit about standards (probably healthy), but also what any of his audience thinks about his ideas (probably not so much).<p>At this point, his flailing supposed anger is really just schtick. He deploys it so casually you just assume it isn't serious. Ironically, he could convey his contempt for standards, or for people who adhere to them slavishly, far more effectively if he simply wrote in a civil tone, rather than continuing to try to affect his Andrew Dice Clay of Programming persona.