14 DAY TRIAL // Linus Torvalds has imparted a serious public whooping to the Google Lollipop Calendar team after they made some weird changes to that particular app.
We all love Linus Torvalds for the fact that he always says what he's thinking and he doesn't hold anything back, especially when it's something that he's passionate about or something that he might be using.
He had some very harsh words for NVIDIA or for the Mac OS development team and he told them exactly what he felt. He showed the finger to NVIDIA and he called the Apple devs lazy for not fixing a simple issue.
Now is the turn for the Google developers who are in charge of the Calendar app for Android Lollipop. It seems that they tried a new feature that introduced a special five-day week that would start at random points. That seemed very odd and it was removed in a subsequent update, but it was enough to draw the attention of Linus Torvalds.
Google developers were on "bad drugs"
Linus Torvalds is an Android user and he's using the latest Lollipop version from Google, although it's unclear what device he has. In any case, he's also a calendar user, which is understandable. He probably has a very busy schedule. Replacing the normal seven-day week with another one must have affected him.
"This is the team that thought that it was a good idea to introduce the 'google calendar week' - that special five-day week that starts at random points in the old-fashioned 7-day calendar. But then the drugs wore off, and finally somebody seems to have realized that the whole point of a calendaring application is actually to be useful in a world where you interact with all those odd old-fashioned people who still think that a week has a boring seven days," wrote Linus Torvalds on Google+.
It's not likely that Google devs are actually paying any attention to the Google+ account of Linus Torvalds, but if that happens and the Calendar app gets improved, we might suspect Linus for having a real influence.