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Linus is great enough, and known enough, to be allowed some idiosyncrasies. If you follow LKML long enough you realize these hard language comments do not carry

Linus is great enough, and known enough, to be allowed some idiosyncrasies. If you follow LKML long enough you realize these hard language comments do not carry one tenth the negative message a primary read would convey. Note that this happens because you can read it with knowledge of the writer's personality. If it were an anonymous author, your impression would be perfectly correct. No, I know that the standard reply here is that no one is above being polite. I disagree. This is a Linus' flaw, of course, but one we can live with in the context of his hugely positive net contribution.

GFK_of_xmaspast 12y ago
"Oh you can advocate murder for people you don't like as long as your technical chops are in order" --you
- sergiosgc 12y ago
  "You can yell bloody murder as long as people know you aren't serious about it"-- really me
- vidarh 12y ago
  How you managed to read that into the message above is totally beyond me.
  - freehunter 12y ago
    >This is a Linus' flaw, of course, but one we can live with in the context of his hugely positive net contribution. Said in response to a comment by Linus directly stating that someone should be retroactively aborted (murdered).
    - sergiosgc 12y ago
      Be reasonable. Do you seriously read that meaning into Linus' message? Couldn't it have an interpretation other than a literal one? I know a lot gets lost in written format, but ... come on!
    - vidarh 12y ago
      It takes an extreme lack of understanding of how people actually use English to believe that Linus was actually advocating murder with the message he made, no matter the literal content. If you seriously believe he was advocating murder, I presume you have reported the matter to the police, as in that case it is a criminal offence.
    - fl0wenol 12y ago
      I think you should be retroactively aborted due to your unrelenting pedantry which serves no one and isn't even amusing. Just kidding, I hope you die in a couch fire.

GFK_of_xmaspast 12y ago

"Oh you can advocate murder for people you don't like as long as your technical chops are in order" --you

sergiosgc 12y ago
"You can yell bloody murder as long as people know you aren't serious about it"-- really me
vidarh 12y ago
How you managed to read that into the message above is totally beyond me.
- freehunter 12y ago
  >This is a Linus' flaw, of course, but one we can live with in the context of his hugely positive net contribution. Said in response to a comment by Linus directly stating that someone should be retroactively aborted (murdered).
  - sergiosgc 12y ago
    Be reasonable. Do you seriously read that meaning into Linus' message? Couldn't it have an interpretation other than a literal one? I know a lot gets lost in written format, but ... come on!
  - vidarh 12y ago
    It takes an extreme lack of understanding of how people actually use English to believe that Linus was actually advocating murder with the message he made, no matter the literal content. If you seriously believe he was advocating murder, I presume you have reported the matter to the police, as in that case it is a criminal offence.
  - fl0wenol 12y ago
    I think you should be retroactively aborted due to your unrelenting pedantry which serves no one and isn't even amusing. Just kidding, I hope you die in a couch fire.