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No, you are wrong, and Linus is wrong and you are both worthless assholes who should just fuck off and die. Oh, you don't like my tone? Yeah, just like a loser to play the victim card. Learn to accept my different style of communication already!

The disgusting things here are Linus' behaviour and your rationalizing of it.

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I don't personally mind your tone, but your message has no content. If you read any of the 'insulting' posts by Linus, you'll see they're insulting for a reason: someone messed up badly, and he always explains exactly where and how.

The difference is that Linus resorts to such communication for a reason versus you doing this just to prove your point.

Oh, and what is Linus' reason, if not to prove his point? He pretty much outright says so: he thinks it's necessary to swear to get people to listen.

>> he thinks it's necessary to swear to get people to listen.

That is correct, but ONLY when people (specifically kernel maintainers) produce much below acceptable standards. In case I am missing smth - can you point to an e-mail where Linus was cursing at a newcomer (i.e. not kernel maintainer)?

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