The parent wasn't claiming it wasn't stupid or wrong, they were talking about the tone. It's not quite Linus rejecting a patch with some choice insults, but it's certainly in that direction.
And she's always got an overall point about how to run things better / improve process / get newbies up to speed and past the 'every commit breaks things'.
I'd take the time to go read the rest of her posts I haven't seen, and definitely learn a bit about surviving sysadmin work in larger organizations in the process.
Granted that his tone and her tone were very different, but, imo, as a reader of her posts, this wasn't necessary. Educating junior devs is more productive than considering them randos.
I'll take my downvotes here, but personally I think Linus with that apology crossed the threshold into old age. Quoting Tomasi di Lampedusa:
> The Prince who had found the town unchanged, was found much changed himself, whom never before would have used such accommodating words; and since then, invisible, began the decline of his prestige.
I don't mind that way of communicating, but I'm also absolutely fine with Linus' style. The comments in defense of this had a bit of a cultish feel ("she has earned the right to talk that way about people!!111"), but I gather that's more because people know her and may consider her a friend, so their perception is changed.