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This is basically a hit piece that has been in many ways disproven. Linus and his team are a bunch of apes but that means they are mostly incompetent, not actually malicious.
This. Recently I took a deep dive into the controversies from both sides. It is a little difficult to piece things together because most of Linus' more detailed replies came from old WAN shows, but I can say with certainty now that it's incompetence and miscommunication.
If anything, my opinion on Linus stayed about the same and my opinion on GN went way down. After a certain point I couldn't help but feel that either Steve just really hates Linus, or he was trying to drag his reputation enough for GN to snatch a larger piece of the tech YouTube pie. Neither are a good look.
Yeah, from everything that I saw and I was watching WAN Show regularly at that time, and from the posts that I saw and the explanations that they made, it mostly seems that LTT had a problem of growing too big, too fast, management was still in the mindset that they were a small company with a few people, they just didn't grow correctly, and that came to bite them in the ass. They say they've tried to improve on this, and that they are better nowadays, that's to be seen. But either way, this didn't seem like malice, and the way GN doubled down just left a very bad taste in my mouth.
Yeah, you already told me you're a fanboy who would reject evidence, so I'm not surprised