...No, he isn't. He's absolutely disposable. I'd be kicking him in the ass all the way out the front door on any job - electronic or physical - where I had to put up with his shit.

The actual work every single other developer, designer, Grand Old Distro Overlords and everything else - suddenly pales in comparison to someone that leveraged and was on the ground floor with writing tools because no one else did, was mildly successful at it, walked away, and turned into weaponized autism for the next 20+ years?

/r/-fucking/linux - how many of you would write most of his shit out of boredom or rage in about 20 minutes and have most of it work? I know tsunami_of_rodents could - he's hateable but knows his shit.

Reasonably large portions if you're a compsci grad?

Okay. Lot of people could now.

So - ask him to get off his arse, write something new, exciting, insightful, use some variant of Git so that others can keep up, contribute with all that early expertise that built everything:

Do you honestly think he could blow us out of the water?

Or would he get confused about the business end of a reversible saw and make excuses?

Letting him be the prow of this ship is like letting Dubya run 'Murica - 'Murica ain't half bad, managed thus far, but we don't need a buggy whip salesman being the go-to guy, either.

He got unreasonably canonized and he's running around like some fucking guru in India - doesn't know shit about modern-day stuff, (and that's not some goalpost-moving thing, he just doesn't know what he's talking about...

I don't give a fuck if he's Jesus or God himself, should we keep stoning women because the Old Testament had words about it or come up with inventive ways to do no "work" while turning on a light like genuinely Orthodox Jews?

No. It's fucking stupid. And he's a nut, IMO.