How I learnt to give up and accept I'm a worthless developer

I'm posting this on pastebin partly because I don't have a blog, but mostly because I don't want to have people attack me personally for my post.

In reading http://blog.davewilkinsonii.com/posts/the-zed-shaw-phenomenon I was shocked and horrified to stumble across https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75. The first line of the response alone horrified me, and that horror turned to anger. Now, I understand that Linus has his own way about him, however, in reading the context (the person being flamed is asking someone a question and trying to solve the problem) I feel that Linus is just a down right cunt.

Now of course, I can go join the long line of people who find Linus offensive, just like I can go join the long line of people who think Zed Shaw is an angry douche because obviously one person on the internet is not going to change how a person is. And that there, is the problem.

This is probably a realisation I'm late too, and it will probably make me look stupid, but I've come to realise that there is just no point trying to change the state of the tech industry or the people in it. The sad fact is, these people have made their fame through the scattered graveyards of the lowly developers emotions.

I'd love to see change, to see a world where the average developer isn't frightened to contribute to the Linux kernel, a world where a developer can voice a differing opinion and not need to subsequently refill his anti-depressant script. So here I sit, with many a lowly proletarian developers too afraid to contribute to open-source.

signed
unimportant person #4758319