Yeah, it used to be way more often > a decade ago. Most of the famous rants people know of are from more recently, and are fairly insulting. I don't store old

Yeah, it used to be way more often > a decade ago. Most of the famous rants people know of are from more recently, and are fairly insulting. I don't store old mailing lists, but the thing I generally point to is his statements towards the security community and, back then, specifically PaX team. I've stumbled on tons of personal attacks from him, either escalating an already negative conversation, or starting it himself. I also challenge the "usually right". To my knowledge, Linus is quite often wrong. And that's fine, really, everyone is wrong a lot of the time. But hero worship, or feeling the need to excuse his behavior even somewhat due to a false sense that it's helping things, is not a good idea.