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I believe that Linus's attacks are usually good intentioned, to get people in the Linux community to act better. I am not sure what Theo's intent is.

If you want to effect change, do some work, don't write emails.

As can be expected from a project with a slogan of "Shut up and hack"[1].

As the notes indicate, this saying goes back much further than this release song.