[banachtarski]

Linus' response is that calling it an infeasible problem is a cop-out. The right way to go about it is to fix them all, incrementally if need be, and not break userland in the process.

[unityByFreedom]

These comments sound analogous to real world security and societal issues. Like, the desire to increase army size and addressing the underlying issues.

One is a short term solution, the other long term.

[fsloth]

I think given the quantity of our planetary computation infrastructure Linux runs, it's very much a real world issue.