I really enjoyed this thought in that mail: “Tough. There are two kinds of reactions to that [time lost from a bug you introduced in kernel dev]: you start being careful, or you start whining about
a kernel debugger.”
He also reminds people why everyone pulls from torvalds/linux to this day:
> People think I'm a nice guy, and the fact is that I'm a scheming, conniving bastard who doesn't care for any hurt feelings or lost hours of work if it just results in what I consider to be a better system.
> People think I'm a nice guy, and the fact is that I'm a scheming, conniving bastard who doesn't care for any hurt feelings or lost hours of work if it just results in what I consider to be a better system.