On: Linus Torvalds on the Google vs Oracle verdict

[tsurantino]

I'm more astounded by the fact that Linus is on a social networking site like Google+.

I'm really hoping he makes a Twitter account for his rant-I mean comments :D

[bradwestness → tsurantino]

Google+ seems to have been adopted by a lot of major players in the tech industry. Quite a few notable people post on it pretty regularly, possibly because it's hard to effectively tweet about technology issues in 140 characters.

I'd probably switch to it exclusively too if I could use it to export to Twitter and Facebook.

[icebraining → bradwestness]

I'd probably switch to it exclusively too if I could use it to export to Twitter and Facebook.

I don't use it, but for social media you can use IFTTT:

http://ifttt.com/recipes/search?q=google+plus

[duaneb → bradwestness]

What's the point of exporting it to twitter/facebook?

[eclark → duaneb]

Lots of people who are not early adopters are still on FB and won't move for quite a while.

[AndrewDucker → eclark]

You don't need to move. You can got to _two_ websites.

[desas → AndrewDucker]

And read the same things twice?

[SkyMarshal → bradwestness]

Linus also works at Google. I suspect he'd probably still be exclusive to lkml otherwise.

[jemfinch → SkyMarshal]

No, he doesn't.

[irahul → SkyMarshal]

> Linus also works at Google

Linus works at Google?

[kinlan → SkyMarshal]

No he doesn't

[SkyMarshal → SkyMarshal]

Oops, must have seen him at a tech talk or something and didn't realize he was a guest.

[kristianc → bradwestness]

>> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3." [1]

HN's own style guide has sound advice for how Linus might shorten his posts to under 140 characters.

[1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[aptwebapps → kristianc]

I've never seen him post here. Does he have an account?

[batista → kristianc]

This assumes that the "That is an idiotic thing to say;" is unimportant. On the contrary.

1) It gives a lot of pleasure to respond with it to idiotic ideas.

2) It adds emphasis and a sense of proportions to the error, ie. it's not just a simple mistake, it is an idiotic mistake.

3) It (hopefully) shames the perpetrator of the idiotic idea into thinking twice before speaking.

It's not always appropriate, but a lot of times it is just the thing.

[donniezazen → tsurantino]

I wonder if Google requested him and other major dignitaries to adopt their social network site. Is he on other social networking sites like Facebook?

If you follow the trending, a hugh number of trends are tech related and specific to Linux like #GIMP, #GDriveforlinux. A large number of G+ users seem to be geeks.

[lyman → tsurantino]

maybe 140 chars is just not enough for his rant - i mean comments ;)