He’s 100% right and was only a little less professional than I think was deserved. A little too focused on the personal rather than the commit and wrongheadedness of the email itself. Anyone could submit a bad patch.
Was there a similarly harsh invective sent to whomever approved the PR in the first place? I’d bet so.
This mail is 13 years old, and doesn’t seem relevant for anything? This post seems like a lazy attempt at shit-stirring.
But the timestamp says 2012, how can it be 13 y…
I’m one of the 10000 to discover it today. I did not know about it. That’s it. Feel free to downvote.
But what did you learn? What are we supposed to learn? Did you get any context, like how he actually went to anger management therapy later?
Or is this just guffawing and gawping at an old angry email from a tech celebrity?
I’ve never seen it and found it entertaining that someone so knowledgeable dressed-down someone who messed up something they’re passionate about.
Was he a dick about it? Yes. But it doesn’t make me like him less, even without knowing he’s gotten better about it recently.
He’s 100% right and was only a little less professional than I think was deserved. A little too focused on the personal rather than the commit and wrongheadedness of the email itself. Anyone could submit a bad patch.
Was there a similarly harsh invective sent to whomever approved the PR in the first place? I’d bet so.
That is how I read it as well.
Also, Torvalds went through some serious soul-searching between then and now and really came out on top of it. My full respect.