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The Linux Development Community is known for being overly aggressive. Torvalds more than most.

If you say something stupid or do anything wrong, they will hate for for it and call you an idiot.

It's not necessarily a bad thing. I guess it may help prevent lesser programmers from contributing code to the kernal.

When properly done, aggressiveness and cursing at people is way to emphasize things. In the scale of emphasis it falls somewhere below passive aggressive and using all caps.

Here is the example sentence in standard hacker rudeness scale:

0. Please fix this.

1. Fix this now, you moron. <-- Linus

2. I guess, we don't use this until you find way to fix this. Maybe I help with FreeBSD project meanwhile.

3. I need you to fix this NOW.

4. I NEED TO YOU TO FIX THIS NOW!

5. I NEED YOU TO FIX THIS NOW, MORON!

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