I refrained from guessing the cause of this before, but I believe it is you being a fan of Torvalds' and/or being sympathetic to his unwilingness to moderate own behavior.
Please address my point about definitions or explicitly introduce a new point if you really want to argue the other thing further.
Be the change you want to see. Going off topic to bash his personality style doesn't really add anything to the discussion of Kernel debuggers.
You're right with me being sympathetic, I don't hide that but it's not relevant to my point. Thanks for being curteous.
The double standard is how we attack Torvalds for the same thing radical feminists say on a daily basis. You ever interacted with Shanley?
I don't care about their personality style. They're both abrasive, I just think Torvalds has actual value and skill sets that I could only dream of. The other one... Not so much.
Going "OT" was due to the title. I thought it was that post where Torvalds obstinately defends his rudeness. Basically the man's lack of style almost prevented his point from being communicated. So even digging for points which I did and do* only went so far.
*Mind you, I've found sifting through noise to have diminishing returns. People often use cuss words instead of arguments. Strong points do not need strong language.