I have been watching Linus on and off since the NCIX days, but given all the news i’ve read over the last few days (including the disturbing sexual harassment/workplace culture details), he is breaking my heart, going down I path I cant follow.
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Linus helped me get motivated and confident enough to have the career I have today, if it wasn’t for Linus back in the early early 2010s I’d still be a retail nobody.
But alas I never idolized him, and it doesn’t surprise me that much for the company to do what it’s done. What Madison says doesn’t surprise me. I’m also a woman in the infotech industry, and I’ve seen a lot of crap - but mostly in my personal hobbies like video gaming and MTG.
Wait for WAN show and for what he has to say about it before coming to conclusions.
It’s not looking good right now but if he (and also the new CEO) commits to fixing the issues in his company, we should give him time to follow through with those promises.
Nah dude. GN called them out on their technical bullshit about a week ago. Linus then proceeded to shift blame and gaslight like a sociopath. GN made some additional brief commentary about how they were dismayed by his reaction, and left it at that. Then one of LMG’s until-very-recently-employees came out about some (at this point, admittedly uncorroborated, but) pretty heinous abuse she had suffered while working there, including sexual harassment, to the degree that she engaged in self-harm.
Linus is showing us who he really is with how he’s responded to this sequence of events. I, for one, believe him - but that’s probably largely due to the fact that I entirely cut off contact with one of my best friends a couple years ago after some stuff came out that made it abundantly clear that he was a complete and total psychopath, and just really good at hiding it, so I’m probably overly sensitive to things like this.
I thought he already said in a lengthy forum post that he specifically would not be talking about it at the next WAN show
Edit: Link to the Linus’ post on the LTT forums where he says “There won’t be a big WAN Show segment about this or anything. Most of what I have to say, I’ve already said, and I’ve done so privately.” plus a lot of extra fluff:
Sorry, didn’t see that before. And boy, that’s bad. No comment on the many graphs steve showed that were clearly wrong, but a corpo marketing response instead.
