How bad a boss is Linus Torvalds?

I mean yeah, Linus isn't the most civil person ever. But the timing just seems all too unlikely to be coincidental.

So... another Adria Richards? Careful not to make any jokes about forking dongles!

I don't want to work professionally with people who have a stick jammed up their ass - and it seems to me that most people agree. I'm trans. I find this comic [0] hilarious. Others would call it problematic, offensive, and even transphobic. I wouldn't want to work with any of those people.

Asking people to bend over so you can shove a stick up their ass doesn't go well. I can see how this might come as a surprise to people who already have sticks, but I guess somebody needs to tell them... the stick isn't normal. The problem isn't that other people are missing their sticks, but that you have one.

[0] http://i.imgur.com/kFurr3J.png

I don't disagree that it can be unpleasant, but you can't just change one thing about a community and expect everything else to stay the same. In reality, enforcing community changes will have unintended consequences. As the article freely admits, the best way to get quality contributions is to let the code speak for itself.

If the named code was objectively bad, as the article suggests, then that programmer was doing his community a disservice by submitting it, and he needed his community to correct his behavior.