http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1414106
It also resulted in the site: http://shutupmauro.com/ (where you can see the response as well)
You can find many defenses of him when this was discussed 30 days ago on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4962912
If you want to be spared the reading it is Linus Torvalds berating someone, and every top level comment in the HN thread is a defense of Linus.
I think its salient to bring up in light of the #1 topic right now, "What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5106767
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Linus' mission and position do not excuse his language. In defending users, he's still attacking a person. In the topic 30 days ago and commentors in the #1 topic right now are defending the same.
I think rooting out this kind of shitty behavior is the most important thing we can do to advance programming communities and make others feel welcome. By miles. Especially gender and general newcomer disparities.
The fact that so many here and elsewhere seem to think think this language is OK or justified completely blows me away.
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> Mauro, SHUT THE FUCK UP!
> It's a bug alright - in the kernel. How long have you been a maintainer? And you still haven't learnt the first rule of kernel maintenance?
> If a change results in user programs breaking, it's a bug in the kernel. We never EVER blame the user programs. How hard can this be to understand?
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> Shut up, Mauro. And I don't _ever_ want to hear that kind of obvious garbage and idiocy from a kernel maintainer again. Seriously.
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If you talked to your spouse like that it would be called abuse.
Why do we tolerate shitty, mean behavior like this in programming communities?