For the 25th anniversary of the Linux Journal, Robert Young has interviewed Linus Torvalds again. Yes, it's the same Robert Young who is co-founder of the large multinational, Red Hat. This is a follow up interview to the one Robert Young, then a journal publisher, made with Linus Torvalds 25 years ago in Linux Journal. A lot has changed since 1994.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 05 2019, @03:33PM
Bullshit. He is absolutely held accountable, by the only group that matters: His peers. Most of whom seem to have no problem with it. If you have a problem with that, then join those peers and work for change. Don't twist the word accountable in to a pretzel to try and justify meddling because you don't approve of someone else's choices.
I mean, who else would hold someone accountable for their actions, other than the people directly interacting with them? If my plumber is an asshole, I fire his ass. I don't expect the City/State/Union to step in and force him to change his ways. If he's the only plumber in town, I either swallow my pride and get him back in, or I buy some tools and acquire the basics of the trade myself. Expecting someone to change their behavior just because -I- have a problem with it, is bullshit. There is no such thing as an 'attitude problem'. There is someone with an attitude, and someone with a problem. These are almost never the same person, though often you'll find it's two people with unrelated problems.