Interesting. Got a link to an example of where this is happening? Because its a form of irrationality I'm not accustomed to with Linus, and I'd like to see for myself if he might have reasons for behaving this way beyond just stubborn pig-headedness. I know he can be stubborn, but in the case of management of Kernel development, he has very fine reasons... the scope of the kernel is far greater than the scope for some user space software, and so this is indeed an intriguing opportunity to gain some insight into his thought processes.