• Atemu
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    1211 months ago

    Problem is that the average person cannot discern between an actual expert and a charlatan.

    • @psud
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      1311 months ago

      Skilled programmers can see that Linus is an expert. It works in tech. It probably works in any professional environment - anywhere where skilled people are picking someone highly skilled.

      For the average person, we have clearly seen average people suck at picking expert leaders, though it works fine in small groups

    • Cowbee [he/him]
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      611 months ago

      And yet Linux works fine. Not everyone needs to be a dev, devs can tell the difference between an expert and a charlatan.

      • Atemu
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        11 months ago

        I meant that as a reply to the second paragraph which generalised anarchism; including the non-Linux world.
        I also disagree that this isn’t an issue in the broader Linux community however. See for example the loud minority with an irrational hate against quite obviously good software projects like systemd who got those ideas from charlatans or “experts”.

        • Cowbee [he/him]
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          411 months ago

          I know, I used Linux as an example. Just like not everyone needs to be a weatherman to trust weatherman that can recognize experts among themselves, so too can engineers recognize experts among themselves, and so forth.