"... Linus does come across as more of an arrogant upstart, and less of a dickish master than usual. ..." There was a follow-up to this email joust detailed in

"... Linus does come across as more of an arrogant upstart, and less of a dickish master than usual. ..." There was a follow-up to this email joust detailed in "Just for Fun" [0] with this remark, "Maybe a year later, when Linus was in the Netherlands for his first public speech, he made his way to the university where Tanenbaum taught, hoping to get him to autograph Linus's copy of Operating Systems: Design & Implementation, the book that changed his life. He waited outside his door but Tanenbaum never emerged. The professor was out of town at the time, so they never met." The book also detailed that the main reason for the spat was that Tanenbaum was publicly commenting. Hence the response. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_for_Fun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_for_Fun