> This guy [...] was making fun of my contribution That isn't entirely correct, because you contributed nothing. He (kind of) made fun of your attempted contr

> This guy [...] was making fun of my contribution That isn't entirely correct, because you contributed nothing. He (kind of) made fun of your attempted contribution. What else could he do? He could tell you in sterile, technical language that zeroing pages is done for security reasons. You'd probably perceive that as condescending. He could instead ignore you. That wouldn't be nice, either. If you were Linus, how would you handle your not-quite-contribution?