> It’s perfectly possible to critique without being a bully. Yep. And it's perfectly possible to accept being called stupid, if you truly did do something bone

> It’s perfectly possible to critique without being a bully. Yep. And it's perfectly possible to accept being called stupid, if you truly did do something boneheaded. It's not a permanent scar that ruins the rest of your life, as you seem to believe. > What Theo and Linus are doing wrong is scaring away a large pool of potential contributors who don’t want to take that risk. Good riddance.