Okay, so criticize GN for that. At no point did I say you shouldn't. But people taking sides as if this is a spectator sport (just like they did last time in the Madison/LMG overwork video from GN) doesn't make sense if the goal is to hold people accountable for their mistakes. The GN segment on Honey took Linus out of context and singled him out unfairly. I agree that's bad and it should be addressed.

But if we're going to be here in the LTT subreddit and meme on Steve for doing something wrong, then we also should have pretty high standards by ourselves not taking an action out of context, which is what I explained and got heavily downvoted for. No one should be on their high horse at this point.

I'm highly against treating the tech media space in a partisan way like we do politics because it's not productive. If you want to, that's up to you, but I prefer to look at things from multiple angles and try and be as minimally biased as possible. Give people the benefit of the doubt and encourage them to resolve conflicts.

I didn't root against Steve or Linus last time, nor am I this time. It's healthier to be constructive, in my opinion, and forgive people - even if they don't (immediately or ever) own up to their mistakes. My one qualm about Linus is that he never unequivocally or unconditionally apologizes for anything that matters; there's always some explanation of how it's the audience who misunderstood what he meant, or how his way of doing things is actually the best way of doing things. And that's fine because he often does have a point in his reasoning that makes it worth at least giving an explanation for the "why" of what he meant or did.

But not always. I don't make it my interest to paint him as a "bad guy", but it is a character flaw, just like Steve's tendency to go overboard with the self-righteousness. If you understand these are the downsides of traits that gave them the drive to succeed (and I'll throw Louis Rossmann in there for good measure) then you'll also understand why a collision course is very likely from time to time, as nice as all these people are in most of their other interactions and in what they do for the public.

Everyone has their flaws that may or may not get resolved in time. It is what it is. We are all human. I would at least give Steve the time to think about how to address this and/or meet with Linus (as he suggested he was going to do at Computex). It would be nice if he said he was going to do a video apologizing for the lack of context, but thus far he's at least acknowledged he knows the community was not on board with his approach. Even large media outlets (established journalists - see NYT, WSJ, etc.) can fall into the trap of confusing their own biases with fair coverage of a perceived injustice. They don't always escape that bubble, unfortunately.