Anyone read "Just for fun" by Linus Torvalds 1583

Johannes Bauer

Imagine starting to write an OS, posting to USENET for help and within a few years your opposite numbers are Gates and Jobs? Imagine you are shy, geeky and do not want to be held up as some form of idol for the mbuttes - built up to be smashed down in a second. Imagine getting 1000 emails a day, all telling you how great you and your OS are.

Then you get a chance to have your say in a book to put the record straight, saying... 'I'm nothing special, in fact I'm quite a needle I'm not, would be quite admirable.

Nobody is an angel in black and white. Ask me and I'll tell you I'm a good, law-abiding person, but, I tell you, in the near 40 years I've walked this earth, I could give you account after account of things I've done or said that would make my claim appear questionable. If YOU can't, then you haven't lived.

Is there any doubt, if Linus wanted, he could live The Life, surrounded by Yes-men? Seems to me, he wants a nice job and a relatively normal-sane life for him, his wife and kids.

Maybe he thinks portraying himself as a jerk will put people off the scent and he won't have people camping on his lawn.

The 'Ha you bought this book... moron... gas for my car', musicians over the years have done the same. Humour doesn't always translate very well.