Paolo RedaelliTorvalds’ Secret Sauce For Linux: Willing To Be Wrong – from Slashdot
Torvalds explains the combination of youthful chutzpah, openness to other’s ideas, and a willingness to unwind technical decisions that he thinks were critical to the OS’s development: “I credit the fact that I didn’t know what the hell I was setting myself up for for a lot of the success of Linux. […] The thing about bad technical decisions is that you can always undo them. […] I’d rather make a decision that turns out to be wrong later than waffle about possible alternatives for too long.”
I shall keep it in mind. I hope it’s not too late.