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What a ridiculous comment. Here's a small sample of Torvalds being an ass.

https://github.com/corollari/linusrants/blob/master/table.md

Someone who doesnt see a problem with this is probably one of those toxic people who dont realize they're toxic you mentioned. Nobody wants to be treated how Torvalds treated people.

Also, coming from an orchestral background, I'm well aware of situations where the leader needs to be gruff. A gentle conductor will never get the idiot violists playing in tune. (A harsh one won't either, but at least the violists will be too scared to make any noise.) That said, it's still unacceptable for a conductor to cross the line from gruff to personal attacks.

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Culture that gave world "microagression", "harasment", cancel culture and now numeric "hate". "Not toxic".

> Nobody wants to be treated how Torvalds treated people.

Exactly, nobody wants but so many can't stop until treated.

> Stop this "we can break stuff" crap. Who maintains udev? Regressions are not acceptable. I'm not going to change the kernel because udev broke, f*ck it. Seriously. More projects need to realize that regressions are totally and utterly unacceptable. ... That just encourages those package maintainers to be shit maintainers. ... And stop blaming the kernel for user space breakage!...

Hate 0.832673044602

For common sense.

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> nothing I've ever read from him ever seemed particularly offensive

You may have missed the "retroactively aborted" one.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/6/495

To be fair, he's got much more self-control now.

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