[yes_or_gnome]

Most be a slow day at HN. I've subscribed to this subreddit and the posts there are mostly people discovering lkml.org for the first time and seeing the "Hottest" emails of which some are over 5 years old. (`Re: [Regression w/ patch] Media commit causes user space to misbahave (was: Re: Linux 3.8-rc1)`, `Re: [GIT] Networking`, etc.) In this thread, there's been plenty of more recent examples of Linus's snark, but this particular subreddit is more or less dead. And, I suspect it's dead for a good reason. That is, Linus doesn't really really all that much. Side from the infamous 'Mauro, Shut The F* Up!' email, there's not that many good "rants".

There's plenty of snarky, bad behavior sure. I get that a lot of people don't like it, but none of them bother to understand that these people work together daily and in the most open environment possible. Nobody considers the fact that, in the most infamous example, Mauro has been a contributor since 2006. (I don't know either, not anyone that's a major Linux contributor.) That's right, I wrote 'has' not 'had' because he still contributes to this day. That's not too excuse a behavior, but as a knock against the characterization of a "toxic environment". Maybe for some, but obviously not for others.

I for one, am glad that most of my cringiest, offensive comments were in person and that I was able to walk then back. And, of the stupifying comments that I made in an email, I'm incredibly thankful that they were private.