raises hand I would love to be able to contribute to the linux kernel one day. But I'm unlikely to ever become part of the community when its leader behaves like this.
In this sub-thread, you're the first one to bring up swearing.
Solutions to those mistakes are rarely found by publicly demonising those who made the mistake.
But that isn't what is happening here at all. This code was merged. In fact Linus wasn't even yelling at the guy, rather the standards committee.
Just because you don't read 'atta boy, good job' doesn't mean it wasn't good. There was no mistake here.
In fact I'd be on your side if that is what he was doing.