[detaro]

In what way would rejecting the code with different wording be "capitulating" exactly?

[timmytokyo]

If you've worked in SWE for long enough, you'll run into this kind of socially maladjusted petty tyrant many times in your career. It's fascinating to see so many of these tyrants exposing themselves in this thread, though.

[frumiousirc]

In what way was I addressing Torvalds' choice of "wording", exactly?

[detaro]

That's the part the comment you replied to had a problem with, so it seemed obvious that your disagreement was with that.