You may have missed the "retroactively aborted" one.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/6/495
To be fair, he's got much more self-control now.
That implementation is also hilariously bad:
> read things ONE F*CKING BYTE AT A TIME with system calls for each byte
https://github.com/corollari/linusrants/blob/master/table.md
Someone who doesnt see a problem with this is probably one of those toxic people who dont realize they're toxic you mentioned. Nobody wants to be treated how Torvalds treated people.
Also, coming from an orchestral background, I'm well aware of situations where the leader needs to be gruff. A gentle conductor will never get the idiot violists playing in tune. (A harsh one won't either, but at least the violists will be too scared to make any noise.) That said, it's still unacceptable for a conductor to cross the line from gruff to personal attacks.
Nobody has to work with him, and you chose not to. You don't contribute your kernel patches because you don't like the guy. And that's fine, great actually.
The kernel wouldn't exist without him. It's essentially his project. Obviously, the contributions of others are vital to it as well, but, I dunno, doesn't he get to be dictator of his own project? Everyone is free to fork the kernel and stop dealing with him. (The fact that forks haven't taken over in popularity like they have for so many other open source/community projects with "dictator maintainer is an asshole" problems indicates to me that maybe he's not the biggest conceivable jerk in the universe. If NeoForge can escape Lexmanos, the Linux kernal can escape Linus Torvalds)
And it's not like the people he's being a jerk to are people he has an employer power dynamic over.
If my boss is a jerk to me, yeah, that sucks, because if I get fired my family doesn't eat.
> Nobody wants to be treated how Torvalds treated people.
Exactly, nobody wants but so many can't stop until treated.
> Stop this "we can break stuff" crap. Who maintains udev? Regressions are not acceptable. I'm not going to change the kernel because udev broke, f*ck it. Seriously. More projects need to realize that regressions are totally and utterly unacceptable. ... That just encourages those package maintainers to be shit maintainers. ... And stop blaming the kernel for user space breakage!...
Hate 0.832673044602
For common sense.
I wonder if starting a comment by despising the parent is just being gruff or it leans on personal attack...
The Linux kernel literally affects billions of people. Lots of lives indirectly depend on the Linux kernel. And you want to allocate as little pain as possible to yourself while happily causing pain on billions of people and many innocent and good lives lost. You prioritize 2 hours of pain for you above millions of hours or more of pain for others and many lives lost.
Jump off a tall building. Linus was undeniably infinitely too polite for un-creatures or anti-creatures like you. And you are well aware of it.