Like it or not, the common expectation is moving towards what you (sarcastically) wrote, and already much farther away than where Linus is at here. Linus gets

Like it or not, the common expectation is moving towards what you (sarcastically) wrote, and already much farther away than where Linus is at here. Linus gets away with it because he's Linus. And surprisingly, I hear even he has toned down a bit.