I'm not sure how many people it would take for Linus to change his ways, but I'd guess that it'd take some kind of intervention, and that seems exceptionally un

I'm not sure how many people it would take for Linus to change his ways, but I'd guess that it'd take some kind of intervention, and that seems exceptionally unlikely. When Linus refuses to change, which he has and will continue to do, I'm not sure what the next step is to squash his sometimes impolite manner. Surely you can't ban Linus from the LKML or convince the Linux Foundation to remove him. For better or worse, Linus and his rants are here to stay. This #kernelhackers #abuse thing is entertaining to watch, but nobody should seriously expect a change here. I suppose it's FOSS, so people who agree with Sarah's position could form their own separate fork and mailing list. More likely though is that every time Linus posts another rant about how poor of a job somebody did, they'll reply with some kind of shaming of his impoliteness, which Linus will simply ignore and nothing will change.