<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">""Because if you want me to 'act professional', I can tell you that I'm
not interested. I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The
same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm *also* not going to
buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and
backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords. Because
THAT is what 'acting professionally' results in: people resort to all
kinds of really nasty things because they are forced to act out their
normal urges in unnatural ways.'
He also offered cookies in exchange for joining the dark side. An earlier reply by Linus <a href="http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=137391223711946&w=2">further explains why he thinks it is OK to be mean</a>:
most of the time, he's only yelling at people who should know better
(cultivating a crew of lead developers bound to him by Stockholm
Syndrome?)."<div><br></div><div>/Samir</div></body></html>