In general, I would agree. When he attacks ad-nominem people on the mailing list, I think he's being a douche. In this instance he's just confronted to a bunch

In general, I would agree. When he attacks ad-nominem people on the mailing list, I think he's being a douche. In this instance he's just confronted to a bunch of people signing a petition, most of whom probably don't understand anything about the crypto involved and jump into a bandwagon after all the PRISM controversies. Petitions on change.org are not a good way to dictate the linux kernel roadmap. That's not democracy, that's demagogy.