I'm pretty sure I can dig up comments like this from both sides from 4 years ago, especially from IRC logs.

please find a mailing list post where Michael is being attacked like that.

You are welcome to do.

Libav has a code of conduct and it is enforced so maybe you'd have much an harder time finding such gems.

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/17927...

(Keep in mind at least one of the Libav supported got questioned on his dayjob regarding "thievery" because of those lovely examples and the legends the fans kept propagating)

If

>If noone has time ill fix the memleak and commit and let the libav cleanup monkeys clean the rest up for me.

Is the kind of inflammatory comment you are so up in arms over, I think you must have lived a very sheltered life. Especially considering this comment looks to have come shortly after the hostile split.

> If noone has time ill fix the memleak and commit and let the libav cleanup monkeys clean the rest up for me.

Is that the line you're objecting to?

That sounds kind of jokey and affectionate to me.

Seriously, people on HN are enraptured when Linus Torvalds writes things that are about eight billion times more personally hostile than that.