Informatica Linus Torvalds responds to Ars about diversity, niceness in open source 17 Gennaio 2015 admin Torvalds spoke to what he thought was a larger concept of “diversity” than what has been mentioned a lot in recent stories on the topic, including economic disparity, language, and culture (even between neighboring European countries). “There’s a lot of talk about gender and sexual preferences and race, but we’re different in so many other ways, too,” he wrote.