Linus Flipped Out
Linus Torvalds flipped out at Gnome today. What started as one little post accumulated, as it seems these things always do, to something that hit Slashdot and all the other high-readership sites.

It came from nowhere: a discussion was started on OSDL's Desktop Architects mailing list, where a member posted a question about features that are (not) implemented GNOME's print dialog. Then Torvalds went off on tangents about "fucking idiot" users and GNOME's window manager. It became a flame about the meaning of the word "usability" (I think!).

Kamil summed it up very nicely:

linus: you pansy-ass mofo's. i don't use gnome because i don't like using software that was written by guys with little dicks.

gnome devs: i think you're missing the point here. this discussion isn't about big penises. it's about making a penis that will fit all holes.

A rather humourous Slashdot comment:

Torvalds farts. Slashdot reports.

So the zealots had a day in the park. In the meantime, all the GNOME and KDE developers seemed to be laughing about this. Unfortunately, this affects my opinion of Linus negatively, especially considering how absolutely unfriendly the kernel is to non-developers.