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If you don't like Linus, you can always fork Linux and create DyslexicAtheist OS :), but no you are attacking, he clearly says few mails later, that killing mac

• godelski 8y ago
  I think the bulk of the argument is about the insult. Creating a new fork doens't really help anyone. Creating a new standard just increases the number of standards.
• DyslexicAtheist 8y ago
  sad to say but Linux security is shit mostly because of Torvalds posturing. He has a history of lashing out to anyone contributing security and compared security researchers and the BSD camp to a bunch of masturbating monkeys. Grsec is dead too. I worked as a Linux Evangelist in the 90ies for a major distro and was a big fan and later as developer would only work in "linux shops". We have ridiculed and hurled abuse at Microsofts poor security at every opportunity (for over a decade), which has IMHO massively strengthened Microsoft - but all this Linux superiority posturing did nothing to improve Linux security. It's kind of annoying (and somewhat a relic of the 90ies) that people still claim Linux has good security. It was an easy claim to make when the thing that Linux compared itself to was a Win95/Win98 Desktop installation. The thing Linux community keeps illustrating is that it's easy to stand on the sideline shouting at your competitor but much harder to actually design better security. All the abuse (or was it tough love?) targeted at Microsoft did a lot of good for Microsoft but it did the opposite to Linux.