How long have you been following the Linux Kernel Mailing List?

Linus has always been abrasive when confronted by what he sees as less than intelligent comments.

Then there was one of my favorites; When Linus made the following statement to Nvidia.

http://youtu.be/iYWzMvlj2RQ

Imagine being in his position. I imagine that he does not really want to respond to it since the authors don't know what they are talking about yet he somehow has to since otherwise people could get suspicious. And imagine if this happened twice a day. Also it's one of the things that looks pretty good on the poster's resume, not so much on Linus'.

Lately? Lol, that's how he is. We can't eliminate the bad in people. It adds a bit of spice.

He has always been, as you describe. Go back in history and see how disrespectfully he talks about free software movement.

Reminds me of a quote from The Big Lebowski

> You're not wrong, you're just an asshole.

Pretty much only the douche things he says gets the media's, or HN's, attention

I think when someone has been "right" for long enough, argumentation tone and attitude tend to deteriorate. As such, I wonder who from a linguistic viewpoint has the least abrasive way to express themselves, Linus Torvalds today or Richard Stallman 1997.

You will be in trouble if you take Linus's language seriously.

Please remove Rdrand from Linux kernel is neither a good question nor a good explanation of anything.

Uh, hes always like that.