One of the first rule of written communication for me: never send an email when angry. You can write it as a sort of catharsis but then just delete it and wait

One of the first rule of written communication for me: never send an email when angry. You can write it as a sort of catharsis but then just delete it and wait a few minutes/hours/days to cool down. You will realize what is important. And for the guy being yelled at here, it was being the maintainer of one of the coolest project on earth. Just to be clear this is not a justification of Linus' behavior. I just believe that responding to inappropriate behavior with inappropriate behavior is a lose/lose proposition.