There is a huge difference between "frank" and "abusive." One does not need to be abusive to "tell it like it is" (the most common phrase I heard people utter

There is a huge difference between "frank" and "abusive." One does not need to be abusive to "tell it like it is" (the most common phrase I heard people utter in defense of Linus's abhorrent behavior toward developers.) Linus was a bully who let authoring the Linux kernel go to his head and inflate his ego.