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And this...

>But dammit, regardless of where you have gotten your mis-information from, any Linux kernel discussion list isn't going to have your idiotic drivel pass uncontested from me.

He hasn't lost his fastball!

It's kind of "his house". He isn't going to let someone use his platform to spew something he considers to be not only clearly wrong, but dangerously harmful. If I owned a newsgroup, I might well feel the same.

This is much more gentle than the old Torvalds.

Good.

Sometimes people need to be yelled at and shut down - antivax is one of them.

He's mostly changed quite a bit. I think this is a good case where Linus can have a little rant, as a treat.

It's okay only when he acts like that towards people we don't like. But if it's me being stupid then he's unwelcoming and toxic.