To be fair, "honesty and straight talk" from Linus Torvalds received mixed responses from the HN crowd too, as seen in another thread: https://news.ycombinator.

To be fair, "honesty and straight talk" from Linus Torvalds received mixed responses from the HN crowd too, as seen in another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8415729 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8415729. Of course, these two situations aren't the same. I still find their respective rhetorics interesting.