[pablomolnar]

This is an old known satire...

[greenyoda]

And it even has a "satire" label at the top of the post.

And it's been previously posted on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4574629

[taspeotis]

I think this story sits one below "The Invention of C++" [1] on /r/forwardsfromgrandma

[1] http://artlung.com/smorgasborg/Invention_of_Cplusplus.shtml

[jeena]

But, but .. Linus does speak like that!

[aristidb]

It doesn't really read like Torvalds at all to me. More like Standard Cynical Programmer.