There is a long and famous history of programmer crashouts

Well, diplomacy was not his thing, his thing was another stuff.

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This was, IMO, a very much needed reminder for someone who was fucking around and blaming everyone else for the stupid shit he was doing.

I remember this as a rare diplomatic win from Linus, and something widely appreciated by the community. Without the "we don't break userspace" rule firmly established, things would be way more fuckey.