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I remember that thread. You have a senior kernel committer breaking userspace and then turning around and laying the blame on the userspace application when it broke. In Linus' email I see cursing, and an ass chewing for all to see.

The thing is, the kernel mailing list being in the open makes it so we see conversations like this, but they should be seen as the equivalent of a private conversation, because that's what they really are.

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I find verbal abuse in private just as inacceptable as in public.

I don't see that as abuse. I've lived with abusive people. They slowly but surely try to destroy you mentally, not through cussing, but in other ways that might even seem friendly at first.

Being told what you did was moronic is very different to being told you are a moron.

Linus is rude, not abusive. There is a difference.

Well you're going to find it hard to work with particular kinds of people then. Do you consider it a problem with _their_ attitude? ;)

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