The funny thing about your comment is that you could have made the exact comment in 1995 to dismiss Java. Sometimes it just takes very long for ideas to reach mainstream, but they can nevertheless become extremely successful.
The most important innovation in the Hindley-Milner type system was parametric polymorphism, since that is the thing that enables you to build more powerful abstractions. Since the release of Java 1.5 and C# 2.0 that is now fully mainstream, but it took more than 25 years.
Oh, I have nothing against new ideas in programming languages, and I think the more "researchy" programming languages are invaluable to the community in the insights they provide on what works and what doesn't. I was simply responding to the befuddlement that the industry prefers languages that adapt ideas slowly, rather than those that are cutting-edge.
Read lmm's comment again. His dislike clearly arises from the problems this software has apparently caused him in the past.
I don't think it matters if the software in question is open source or closed source, or if it was obtained for free or paid for, or how the developer was compensated, or if it were developed by an individual or an organization, or why lmm had to use it in the first place.
Causing people unnecessary grief will invoke a negative reaction. That's perfectly understandable, and quite reasonable.
The main problem was that a particular popular distribution made PulseAudio its default audio system before it was ready for that, and did a bad job integrating and testing it.
That wasn't Lennart's fault. PulseAudio is a really mature and stable system now.
I disagree. PulseAudio is a prime example of Lennart confusing an issue that is fairly specific to Linux to an issue general to Unix. Other Unixes have solutions to the problem of a limited number of audio channels; in such places, PulseAudio only adds needless complexity. Had Lennart instead worked with the people of the Alsa project to improve it, we wouldn't have had any of the problems we saw with pulseaudio, and we wouldn't have yet another layer to deal with in handling audio.
No. People I meet on and offline ask me to write an article for them. I don't approach them.
Occasionally I have written a full blown article and suddenly realised it would be better suited for another site (eg techcrunch) and approached the editor there to ask if they would like to publish that specific article, but I don't do blanket "can I write something for you". That would be highly hypocritical!
Boarding card reissue fee? It's been a few years since I've been on a Ryanair flight, but all the other airlines I've used recently have QR scanners now, you no longer need a boarding card to board a plane.
Or maybe they stole linus' key? Anyone cloned the repository before it was deleted? If so, i think the repo could help in figuring out how it was done.
