This is much more reasonable than the "paraphrased" reply in the blog post.

I think it's somewhat dishonest that the blog author used the quotation feature in his blog post, but instead of including a quote he made up his own response as if the kernel maintainer said it. I barely noticed this parenthetical above the gigantic block quote:

> He said (paraphrasing):

Anyone reading the blog post too fast would assume the kernel maintainer actually said those dismissive words in the gigantic block quote.