It hit nontechnical news sources? I was rather interested in how far it spread (for obvious reasons relating to negative egoboo[1]) but I never found a non-trade-press source reproducing it (counting Heise's English-language IT section as 'trade press', and also traducing LWN's reputation as Linux paper-of-record by lumping it into the same category).
[1] that feeling of 'oh god stop it tell me there is no more' that any true introvert gets when they create, accidentally or otherwise, a huge splash