On the sickness of our community

Posted Oct 10, 2014 16:26 UTC (Fri) by tbird20d (subscriber, #1901)
In reply to: On the sickness of our community by diederich
Parent article: On the sickness of our community

This is verbal abuse. Full stop.

This begs the question of whether there can be abuse without an actual person being the target of the words conveyed. Linus' 2012 rant was about some anonymous person. It was not directed at Kay. Kay understood this and participated in the humor - see https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/7/80. In context, this doesn't look like abuse at all, just colorful language relating to bad code.

I think you're going to have a hard time finding anyone who this was actually e-mailed to who took any offense to it.