[mundanevoice]

> Wait, so according to you it's OK to be as rude as you wish, as long as you are technically correct? I never said that. My argument is that people/culture are different. What is considered offensive/rude in some culture is considered normal in other cultures.

> Personally, I'm far from convinced that there even is an objective right or wrong in this question. It's probably just a matter of taste and/or perspective.

This is not always true. Sometimes there is only one correct/pragmatic way of doing something. And if someone asserts that it's nothing wrong.

> I find Linus behavior rude because in discussions like this he seems to have little to no understanding of other perspectives than his own.

You can't say this is the case always. I have read a lot of the discussions like these. A lot of times, he writes a pragmatic and valid explanation of his dislike about a certain topic.

> In either case, it's not exactly accepted public discourse.

Again, you are assuming all cultures and societies are alike, they are not. There is a vast wide world with different thinking and a culture other than the Silicon Valley bubble. It's time people stop generalizing everything under the sun.