[deelowe]

I don't know. I'm sure the teams working on their tools had their reasons.

[swsieber]

There are reasons to have technical debt. Having reasonable reasons don't make the technical debt any easier to fix.

I don't think Linus' comment was directed at the author, it was at the code. Whatever the reason, the code he took a dig at is messier than wireguard.

[ryanlol]

You mean, each individual member of those teams had their reasons?

[deelowe]

Not sure. I'm not on the team, but I seriously doubt their intent was to write bad software. I know before ipsec existed there was nothing, so why not thank the individuals who worked on it for pioneering the effort in the first place?