If I had touched any of this stuff in years I might treat it that way in part (after expressing annoyance), but I'm not currently involved - my ssh key probably

If I had touched any of this stuff in years I might treat it that way in part (after expressing annoyance), but I'm not currently involved - my ssh key probably doesn't even work anymore, but if it did I'd still go through the current maintainers like anyone else because I haven't been keeping up with the latest. The current people doing this kind of work deserve non-abusive informed criticism. It isn't OK to post a long diatribe of BS and then expect people to take it as if it were a helpful bug report. It isn't helpful. It's jackassery and unacceptable and this kind of abuse has done more damage to Linux than anyone knows. It is entirely OK to ask questions or file bugs without sending patches. Just don't be an ass about it like this article was.