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| by Sam Varghese | |
| Wednesday, 21 October 2009 | |
  
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It's equally certain that Peter Galbraith, until recently a senior UN diplomat in Afghanistan, is a political being and does not hesitate to speak out. Yet, judging by their appearances, there seems to be some connection between the two. 
There are some similarities in approach too.Torvalds (left) often lets fly with pointed barbs at his fellow kernel developers or at the free and open source community in general. The last time he sprayed on the kernel mailing lists, it was directed at Alan Cox, himself no mean hacker. Torvalds has given plenty of others a tongue-lashing in his time. The GNOME project has been described as interface nazis, and on one occasion, well-known Samba creator Andrew Tridgell copped a fair amount of the Linux creator's wrath. 
Galbraith (right) lost his UN post in Afghanistan for frankly admitting that the recent elections in Afghanistan had been rigged. Subsequent investigation has shown that if anything he was understating the case.He has a reputation as a good investigator, having uncovered the atrocities committed on Kurds in Iraq. It's safe to say that Torvalds has had nothing to do with the Kurds in Iraq. A longtime diplomat, Galbraith was a a professional staff member for the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations from 1979 to 1993. Torvalds is a resident of the US; whether he has taken citizenship or not is unknown. I don't know much more about Galbraith to compare him to Torvalds. It's your turn now, dear reader. |
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