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by anaisbetts 870 days ago
Linus gives these rants (largely) not to people who make mistakes, or who aren't smart, but people who are thoughtless - people who demonstrate that they don't really care, or just are there to drive-by fix Their Thing without any care about the kernel as a whole or how it will affect other people. That's what makes him Mad more than anything else, and that's definitely not the kind of contributor I'd want to be