You'll notice that the insults are entirely directed at an inanimate piece of software.
I'm not going to name and shame the interpreter in question, but the person who originally wrote it was the same person who wrote the compiler in question, Richard M Stallman. ;)
I don't think so.
2. Linus is a Finn, their culture is a bit different, people who post on LKML know this.
And of course even purely artistic creations have always been subject to quite blunt appraisals - you won't have to look far to find them about, say, Jackson Pollock's paintings.
Listening to the God-awful Jazz they play at my local coffee shops makes me wonder just how effective this campaign of psychological warfare was.