A lot of people use the "he's given so much" defense as a reaction to how widely it seems to be published out of context. This seems especially when they apprec

A lot of people use the "he's given so much" defense as a reaction to how widely it seems to be published out of context. This seems especially when they appreciate the culture that created the kernel but have not been following the discussion themselves. There is some feeling that this painfully honest abrasiveness is part of what makes the whole distributed contribution culture work so well and that if we do not defend this uniqueness it will give way to the same watered-down politics you find in so many corporate and even open source projects. Which is kind of silly because Linus isn't going to change. He has made that much clear.