It didn't seem very toxic to me, ESR seemed very respectful of Linus. Here are some things he said about him: > You are a brilliant implementor, more able th

It didn't seem very toxic to me, ESR seemed very respectful of Linus. Here are some things he said about him: > You are a brilliant implementor, more able than me > the best one in the Unix tradition since Ken Thompson himself > genius that you are > You're our chosen benevolent dictator and maybe the second coming of Ken > we respect you and like you If someone said things like that about me, I would be very, very happy.