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Story: Torvalds gets tough on kernel coders

Posted by: Anonymous (Friday 11 November 2005, 5:09 PM)

I believe the summary given to the article, with Linus laughing at the face of developers, is way out of context and it will be misleading to the readers.
Perhaps the intention of the author was to provoke a response, similar to what I do now.

Making a point in such a way as Linus did is common in developer mailing lists. The recipients do not take it literally because they have been in the list for some time and they understand this sense of humour/way of making a point.

Taking this extracts from a developer mailing list and not providing some helpful background is at least confusing to your readers.