Most of Linus post are polite, but the one that are shared are the other ones. If you want to trigger him, just break the kernel ABI and then defend your decision, this never fails.
Anyway, it looks too polite, like he is filtering the email using a "polite" version of the "simple" English writer by xkcd https://xkcd.com/simplewriter/
If I’m understanding you correctly, you are saying the time off allowed him to realize he could get the same point across without being as caustic as he was previously with Mauro. If so, I’m not sure why you are being downvoted.
> Best burn here is him flatly telling Eric that he won't be pulling anything from him until he fixes his attitude.
It's not the contributors personal attitude that's in question here but his attitude towards breaking user space, so it's not even ad hominem or anything.
> Eric, I want to make this 1000% clear: there are no user space bugs.
> If it used to work, then user space was clearly doing the right thing.
> The fact that you tried to several times claim it was buggy user space is a serious breach of trust.
I find Linus' wording remarkably polite. Surely you're not suggesting that Linus should accept breakage of user space out of sheer politeness?
Erm, no. I was never suggesting that. Maybe I expressed myself imprecisely, then.
What I meant by attitude is exactly what you meant ~ the nonchalant attitude towards breaking userspace, and thinking that it's okay if no-one notices.
Which is when Linus gets the most pissed of all.
Linus was polite, yes, but he expressed his anger and disappointment in a great way. Feels more brutal than his old style, actually.
Yes, before he sounded like a moody hacker you had to appease to get your code accepted into his pet project, now he comes across as the head of a multinational corporation who just ended your career.
