[andos]

The comparison to a football coach is very accurate, but I think it's unfair to put Linus Torvalds and Ulrich Drepper in the same bucket.

While Drepper is pure asshole, Linus just uses insults in the same situations the rest of us would use bold text. I wouldn't like to be on the receiving end of one such email, of course, but most of his tirades are actually very constructive.

[neutronicus]

I think both of their demeanors have the same cultural lineage. I didn't want to cherrypick, so I threw Drepper in there, too.