Anyone read "Just for fun" by Linus Torvalds

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Greetings,

I just finished the "Just for fun" book, the autobiography of Linus Torvalds and wanted to share my opinion. More importantly I wanted to know if only my personal opinion is so awkward or if other people in here might feel the same way.

Anyhow, here it goes. I always thought of Linus as a smart, shy man who achieved a great thing by starting the Linux project. Linux is my absolute favourite OS of choice, I couldn't be happier. I love my xfs, nfs, Gnome, Firefox, all these neat Linux applications and stuff.

But my opinion about Linus shifted after reading the book. Now I still think he's smart, and maybe he also is shy. But primarily I think of him as being a huge privates. There are things in the book where he sounds so astonishingly arrogant and talks about things so incredibly derogatorily, I can't believe it. And he tells the reader "Ah, you idiot, bought my book. Now I can afford more gas for my Z3, thanks for the money, moron."

The picture that portrays Linus in the book is a grotesque. I was so alienated and disgusted by parts which Linus wrote that I thought about throwing the whole thing away right in the middle. Linus appears to be one of the most decadent people on earth, from what he writes.

Don't get me wrong here, I love Linux. And I thank Linus for releasing it under the GPL: cause it gives me the freedom to use his software and still voice my bad opinion about him.

If I met him in public, I wouldn't know if I said anything. Honestly, before I read the book I would probably have ran to him and told him everything about how great his OS was (which he writes totally annoys him, people coming up telling him stuff). Now I would maybe (!) consider going up to him asking him for an autograph - because I still have respect for his work. But that would be about it.

My opinion just shifted 180¡, I can tell you...

Greetings, Johannes

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