I don’t think that’s really what Linus wants (obviously we’re speculating here). He was trying to make it clear that breaking the first rule of kernel developme

I don’t think that’s really what Linus wants (obviously we’re speculating here). He was trying to make it clear that breaking the first rule of kernel development is not negotiable. Anger and swearing isn’t needed to express that, let me reiterate, this is what does that: > the threat of rejecting future commits and/or rejecting his opinions was by far the best thing in Linus' response, b/c those cut straight to your potential to contribute to the project.