> you didn't coordinate with anyone. You didn't search lore for the warning strings, you didn't even check -next where you've now created merge conflicts. You put insufficiently tested patches into the tree at the last minute and cut an rc release that broke for everyone using GCC <15. You mercilessly flame maintainers for much much less.
Hypocrisy is an even worse trait than flaming people.
Eh I mean everyone's a hypocrite if you dig deep enough—we're all a big nest of contradictions internally. Recognition of this and accountability is paramount though. He could have simply owned his mistake and swallowed his pride and this wouldn't have been such an issue.
I remember Maddox on xmission having a page explaining that while he may make a grammatical error from time to time, he has published literally hundreds of thousands of words, and the average email he receives contains 10% errors.
However, Linus is well-known for being abrasive, abusive, call it what you want. If you can't take it, don't foist it, Linus. Even if you've earned the right, IMO.
Again, the only non-fictional people I know who qualify, are actually really nice to people.