> How does this tie in with Linus Torvalds, who himself is accused of being toxic and rude? My kitchen sink psychology take on this would be that sometimes doi

> How does this tie in with Linus Torvalds, who himself is accused of being toxic and rude? My kitchen sink psychology take on this would be that sometimes doing something unnice can emotionally compensate for being on the receiving end of un-niceness. You see this a lot in online games where nice players will grief from time to time after they have been griefed. Linus gets a lot of public and presumably also private criticism for basically everything he does, and writing a rude mail every couple weeks may compensate. That being said I personally have written some (in my perception) rude mails and almost always regretted it, apologizing in some cases even. With that in mind I don't envy anyone whose name is prominently associated with a popular open source project. I wouldn't want to be in their skin.