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How bad a boss is Linus Torvalds?
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*Linus Torvalds addressed a packed auditorium of Linux enthusiasts during his speech at the LinuxWorld show in San Jose, California, on August 10, 1999. Credit: James Niccolai*
**It depends on context. In the world of software development, he’s what passes for normal. The question is whether that situation should be allowed to continue.**
I've known Linus Torvalds, Linux's inventor, for over 20 years. We're not chums, but we like each other.
Lately, Torvalds has been getting a lot of flack for his management style. Linus doesn't suffer fools gladly. He has one way of judging people in his business of developing the Linux kernel: How good is your code?
Nothing else matters. As Torvalds said earlier this year at the Linux.conf.au Conference, "I'm not a nice person, and I don't care about you. [I care about the technology and the kernel][1] -- that's what's important to me."
Now, I can deal with that kind of person. If you can't, you should avoid the Linux kernel community, where you'll find a lot of this kind of meritocratic thinking. Which is not to say that I think everything in Linuxland is hunky-dory and should be impervious to calls for change. A meritocracy I can live with; a bastion of male dominance where women are subjected to scorn and disrespect is a problem.
That's why I see the recent brouhaha about Torvalds' management style -- or more accurately, his total indifference to the personal side of management -- as nothing more than standard operating procedure in the world of software development. And at the same time, I see another instance that has come to light as evidence of a need for things to really change.
The first situation arose with the [release of Linux 4.3][2], when Torvalds used the Linux Kernel Mailing List to tear into a developer who had inserted some networking code that Torvalds thought was -- well, let's say "crappy." "[[A]nd it generates [crappy] code.][3] It looks bad, and there's no reason for it." He goes on in this vein for quite a while. Besides the word "crap" and its earthier synonym, he uses the word "idiotic" pretty often.
Here's the thing, though. He's right. I read the code. It's badly written and it does indeed seem to have been designed to use the new "overflow_usub()" function just for the sake of using it.
Now, some people see this diatribe as evidence that Torvalds is a bad-tempered bully. I see a perfectionist who, within his field, doesn't put up with crap.
Many people have told me that this is not how professional programmers should act. People, have you ever worked with top developers? That's exactly how they act, at Apple, Microsoft, Oracle and everywhere else I've known them.
I've heard Steve Jobs rip a developer to pieces. I've cringed while a senior Oracle developer lead tore into a room of new programmers like a piranha through goldfish.
In Accidental Empires, his classic book on the rise of PCs, Robert X. Cringely described Microsoft's software management style when Bill Gates was in charge as a system where "Each level, from Gates on down, screams at the next, goading and humiliating them." Ah, yes, that's the Microsoft I knew and hated.
The difference between the leaders at big proprietary software companies and Torvalds is that he says everything in the open for the whole world to see. The others do it in private conference rooms. I've heard people claim that Torvalds would be fired in their company. Nope. He'd be right where he is now: on top of his programming world.
Oh, and there's another difference. If you get, say, Larry Ellison mad at you, you can kiss your job goodbye. When you get Torvalds angry at your work, you'll get yelled at in an email. That's it.
You see, Torvalds isn't anyone's boss. He's the guy in charge of a project with about 10,000 contributors, but he has zero hiring and firing authority. He can hurt your feelings, but that's about it.
That said, there is a serious problem within both open-source and proprietary software development circles. No matter how good a programmer you are, if you're a woman, the cards are stacked against you.
No case shows this better than that of Sarah Sharp, an Intel developer and formerly a top Linux programmer. [In a post on her blog in October][4], she explained why she had stopped contributing to the Linux kernel more than a year earlier: "I finally realized that I could no longer contribute to a community where I was technically respected, but I could not ask for personal respect.... I did not want to work professionally with people who were allowed to get away with subtle sexist or homophobic jokes."
Who can blame her? I can't. Torvalds, like almost every software manager I've ever known, I'm sorry to say, has permitted a hostile work environment.
He would probably say that it's not his job to ensure that Linux contributors behave with professionalism and mutual respect. He's concerned with the code and nothing but the code.
As Sharp wrote:
> I have the utmost respect for the technical efforts of the Linux kernel community. They have scaled and grown a project that is focused on maintaining some of the highest coding standards out there. The focus on technical excellence, in combination with overloaded maintainers, and people with different cultural and social norms, means that Linux kernel maintainers are often blunt, rude, or brutal to get their job done. Top Linux kernel developers often yell at each other in order to correct each other's behavior.
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> That's not a communication style that works for me. …
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> Many senior Linux kernel developers stand by the right of maintainers to be technically and personally brutal. Even if they are very nice people in person, they do not want to see the Linux kernel communication style change.
She's right.
Where I differ from other observers is that I don't think that this problem is in any way unique to Linux or open-source communities. With five years of work in the technology business and 25 years as a technology journalist, I've seen this kind of immature boy behavior everywhere.
It's not Torvalds' fault. He's a technical leader with a vision, not a manager. The real problem is that there seems to be no one in the software development universe who can set a supportive tone for teams and communities.
Looking ahead, I hope that companies and organizations, such as the Linux Foundation, can find a way to empower community managers or other managers to encourage and enforce civil behavior.
We won't, unfortunately, find that kind of managerial finesse in our pure technical or business leaders. It's not in their DNA.
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[1]:http://www.computerworld.com/article/2874475/linus-torvalds-diversity-gaffe-brings-out-the-best-and-worst-of-the-open-source-world.html
[2]:http://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-4-3-released-after-linus-torvalds-scraps-brain-damage-code/
[3]:http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1510.3/02866.html
[4]:http://sarah.thesharps.us/2015/10/05/closing-a-door/

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Linus Torvalds作为一个老板有多么糟糕？
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*1999 年 8 月 10 日，加利福尼亚州圣何塞市，在 LinuxWorld Show 上 Linus Torvalds 在一个坐满 Linux 爱好者的礼堂中发表了一篇演讲。作者：James Niccolai*
**这取决于所处的领域。在软件开发的世界中，他变得更加平庸。问题是，这种情况是否应该被允许继续？**
Linus Torvalds 是 Linux 的发明者，我认识他超过 20 年了。我们不是密友，但是我们欣赏彼此。
最近，因为 Linus Torvalds 的管理风格，他正遭到严厉的炮轰。Linus 无法忍受胡来的人。「代码的质量有多好？」是他在 Linux 内核的开发过程中评判人的一种方式。
没有什么比这个更重要了。正如 Linus 今年（1999年）早些时候在 Linux.conf.au 会议上说的那样，「我不是一个友好的人，并且我不关心你。对我重要的是『[我所关心的技术和内核][1]』。」
现在我也可以和这只关心技术的这一类人打交道了。如果你不能，你应当避免参加 Linux 内核会议，因为在那里你会遇到许多有这种精英思想的人。这不代表我认为在 Linux 领域所有东西都是极好的，并且应该不受其他影响的来激起改变。我能够一起生活的一个精英；在一个男性做主导的大城堡中遇到的问题是，女性经常受到蔑视和无礼的对待。
这就是我看到的最近关于 Linus 管理风格所引发社会争吵的原因 -- 或者更准确的说，他对于个人管理方面是完全冷漠的 -- 就像不过是在软件开发世界的标准操作流程一样。与此同时，我看到了另外一个非常需要被改变的事实，它必须作为证据公开。
第一次是在 [Linux 4.3 发布][2]的时候出现的这个情况，Linus 使用 Linux 内核邮件列表来狠狠的攻击一个插入了非常糟糕并且没有价值的网络代码的开发者。「[这段代码导致了非常糟糕并且没有价值的代码。][3]这看起来太糟糕了，并且完全没有理由这样做。」当他说到这里的时候，他沉默了很长时间。除了使用「非常糟糕并且没有价值」这个词，他在早期使用「愚蠢的」这个同义词是相对较好的。
但是，事情就是这样。Linus 是对的。我读了代码后，发现代码确实很烂并且开发者是为了使用新的「overflow_usub()」 函数而使用的。
现在，一些人把 Linus 的这种谩骂的行为看作他脾气不好而且恃强凌弱的证据。我见过一个完美主义者，在他的领域中，他无法忍受这种糟糕。
许多人告诉我，这不是一个专业的程序员应当有的行为。人们，你曾经和最优秀的开发者一起工作过吗？据我所知道的，在 Apple，Microsoft，Oracle 这就是他们的行为。
我曾经听过 Steve Jobs 攻击一个开发者，像把他撕成碎片那样。我大为不快，当一个 Oracle 的高级开发者攻击一屋子的新开发者的时候就像食人鱼穿过一群金鱼那样。
在意外的电脑帝国，在 Robert X. Cringely 关于 PCs 崛起的经典书籍中，他这样描述 Bill Gates 的微软软件管理风格，Bill Gates 像计算机系统一样管理他们，『比尔盖茨是最高等级，从他开始每一个等级依次递减，上级会向下级叫嚷，刺激他们，甚至羞辱他们。』
Linus 和所有大型的私有软件公司的领导人不同的是，Linus 说在这里所有的东西是向全世界公开的。而其他人是在私有的会议室中做东西的。我听有人说 Linus 在那种公司中可能会被开除。这是不可能的。他会在正确的地方就像现在这样，他在编程世界的最顶端。
但是，这里有另外一个不同。如果 Larry Ellison （Oracle的首席执行官）向你发火，你就别想在这里干了。如果 Linus 向你发火，你会在邮件中收到他的责骂。这就是差别。
你知道的，Linus 不是任何人的老板。他完全没有雇佣和解聘的权利，他只是负责着有 10,000 个贡献者的一个项目而已。他仅仅能做的就是从心理上伤害你。
这说明，在开源软件开发圈和私有软件开发圈中同时存在一个非常严重的问题。不管你是一个多么好的编程者，如果你是一个女性，你的这个身份就是对你不利的。
这种情况并没有在 Sarah Sharp 的身上有任何好转，她现在是一个Intel的开发者，以前是一个顶尖的Linux程序员。[在她博客10月份的一个帖子中][4]，她解释道：『我最终发现，我不能够再为Linux社区做出贡献了。因为在在那里，我虽然能够得到技术上的尊重，却得不到个人的尊重……我不想专职于同那些轻微的性别歧视者或开同性恋玩笑的人一起工作。』
谁能责怪她呢？我不能。我非常伤心的说，Linus 就像所有我见过的软件经理一样，是他造成了这种不利的工作环境。
他可能会说，确保 Linux 的贡献者都表现出专业精神和相互尊重不应该是他的工作。除了代码以外，他不关系任何其他事情。
就像Sarah Sharp写的那样：
> 我对于 Linux 内核社区做出的技术努力表现出非常的尊重。他们在那维护一些最高标准的代码，以此来平衡并且发展一个项目。他们专注于优秀的技术，却带有过量的维护人员，他们有不同的文化背景和社会规范，这些意味着这些 Linux 内核维护者说话非常直率，粗鲁或者为了完成他们的任务而不讲道理。顶尖的 Linux 内核开发者经常为了使别人改正行为而向他们大喊大叫。
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> 这种事情发生在我身上，但它不是一种有效的沟通方式。
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> 许多高级的 Linux 内核开发者支持那些技术上和人性上不讲道理的维护者的权利。即使他们是非常友好的人，他们不想看到 Linux 内核交流方式改变。
她是对的。
我和其他调查者不同的是，我不认为这个问题对于 Linux 或开源社区在任何方面有特殊之处。作为一个从事技术商业工作超过五年和有着 25 年技术工作经历的记者，我随处可见这种不成熟的男孩的行为。
这不是 Linus 的错误。他不是一个经理，他是一个有想象力的技术领导者。看起来真正的问题是，在软件开发领域没有人能够用一种支持的语气来对待团队和社区。
展望未来，我希望像 Linux Foundation 这样的公司和组织，能够找到一种方式去授权社区经理或其他经理来鼓励并且强制实施民主的行为。
非常遗憾的是，我们不能够在我们这种纯技术或纯商业的领导人中找到这种管理策略。它不存在于这些人的基因中。
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[1]:http://www.computerworld.com/article/2874475/linus-torvalds-diversity-gaffe-brings-out-the-best-and-worst-of-the-open-source-world.html
[2]:http://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-4-3-released-after-linus-torvalds-scraps-brain-damage-code/
[3]:http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1510.3/02866.html
[4]:http://sarah.thesharps.us/2015/10/05/closing-a-door/