 So Linus Torvalds, the guy who came up with the Linux kernel and essentially Linux is kind of named from his name Linus, interesting that he apologized. And let's roll back a little bit why that's even interesting at all or why I'm even here discussing it. So one of the challenges I've always found in tech is inclusivity. There's a lot of people that work in tech that are frequently, I'm not going to say purposely abrasive, but I think they have a lack of concept that through lack of social graces and they don't understand sometimes how abrasive they're being or how their behavior may be perceived as wrong. So we've always made the jokes. There's lots of socially awkward people in tech and things like that. And although a lot of people say I seem more extroverted, I'm actually not myself. This has been through discipline and trying to understand people better. I've taken a lot of time to do this. It's how I run my business because well, I was kind of obnoxious myself when I was younger and it's not something I'm proud of or have any feelings that I should have ever been that way or that it helped me get somewhere. I've realized inclusivity is very important. Now Linus has been the kernel maintainer for well since the inception. So it's 25 over 25 years of this and he has been an excellent steward of that. He is very disciplined. His code reviews are very solid. He's very strict about what goes into the Linus kernel and it's part of why Linux has become this absolutely huge thing that it is. Oh, a lot of credit to him, but I don't know how much better because we can't replay history. It would have been if he was more inclusive. And I say this because Linus, he doesn't just tell you you're wrong and he admits it in here and there's an article wired here, but we're going to talk about it over here in his actual post that sparked all this where he has gone and this is the Linux kernel mailing list where he has a lot of his discussions and it's not like you can have to look for a video of Linus ranting about something. He goes off on people right down to personal attacks in some of his ranting he does. And the problem is we already have a shortage of people in tech and people who are less aggressive or just don't like that kind of behavior are less apt to join tech groups. Because they're hearing people scream RTFM and, you know, why don't you know this or you're an idiot and it's not exactly inclusive. And it's funny because I've met people over the years from going to conferences and people I know online through forums that were very scared to come because they had seen this type of behavior and it made them less interested in joining the tech communities as a group. And this is kind of troubling. So I'm happy to see that Linus is seeking help for this because many of us know him as this guy and there's that childish sense of humor of hey, that's funny. He flipped off NVIDIA but he also goes on a rants and really attacks people personally. So I like that he said I'm gonna take some time off from assistance on how to understand people's emotions and respond appropriately. This is something that's pretty big deal in the community because he's such a person in the community a lot of people look up to him and say hey, Linus does it so should I behave that way too? So I'm hoping this is kind of a ripple effect and we see more inclusivity because, you know, I've hate the horror stories I've heard for people that tried to get something submitted and because of abrasiveness they had in there it took longer to get a project done. It really doesn't help anyone and I don't think you need to be ranty and cussing at people just in order to get a project done. So I find this very interesting and that's why I find it very worthy of discussion. I'll leave a link so you can read his actual post on here. I know some people are saying too little too late and things like that, but I he's still there. He's still Linus and he's still gonna be the Colonel Maintainer or the head of the Colonel Maintenance for a long time and maybe he's thinking about his legacy, but I'm really hoping this is a lead by example. So for those that use the example maybe now they can see, okay, I guess you can be a nicer person, more inclusive. Doesn't mean he should let code in that's bad, but it does mean that he should be focusing on not being abrasive and say, hey, you submitted something wrong as opposed to going on personal attacks, but I'll leave a link to the two articles here. But, you know, being someone who's seen the effects and met people who had a harder time getting into and becoming a developer because of the abrasive behavior some of these people have, I'm hoping to see more of this because we really need more people in tech. There is a fast-growing market. There's not enough security professionals. There's not enough developers. There's always room for more of them and we can't be putting barriers up to saying, when I go there, but I'm afraid if I type something wrong, I'm gonna get a tire rant, yell at me and kind of discourage about it. So I do like more inclusivity and bringing more people in will only help the, especially with the open-source community, the greater good for it in my opinion. So thanks. 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