Even if you had, you would still have been taking things wildly out of context. You are peeking into a subset of a single day in a virtual "office". The convers

Even if you had, you would still have been taking things wildly out of context. You are peeking into a subset of a single day in a virtual "office". The conversation you're seeing snippets of is against a backdrop of more than two decades of that office's operation and social interactions you obviously have not observed. Linus swears a lot (compared to an American), and sometimes blows up at maintainers who do stupid things. That's what this is about. Not racism, sexism, or any other form of oppression you might want it to be about. When you walk in on a conversation and hear "I keep her in a cage", they might be talking about their pet rabbit, not their wife.