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Re:Linus Torvalds Rants by grandinj on Saturday March 03, 2018 @10:59AM (#16509806)
The nice thing about Linus is that he "plays the ball not the man" to use a sporting analogy. He criticises peoples actions, but not the people themselves.

I.e. "this is a stupid thing to do", not "you are stupid".

Re:Linus Torvalds Rants by munin on Saturday March 03, 2018 @11:56AM (#16510149)
> Those security people are fcking morons. [1]

> There's something odd about drm people. [2]

> aarch64 is just another druggie name that the ARM people came up with after drinking too much of the spiked water in cambridge. [3]

> YOU are full of bullshit. [4]

> I've come to the conclusion that any programmer that would prefer the project to be in C++ over C is likely a programmer that I really would prefer to piss off [4]

> Mauro, SHUT THE FUCK UP! It's a bug alright - in the kernel. How long have you been a maintainer? And you still haven't learnt the first rule of kernel maintenance? [5]

1: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1711.2/01701.html

2: https://www.spinics.net/lists/dri-devel/msg157415.html

3: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/15/133

4: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/linus

5: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75