he’s one of the few people I’ve read about who not only acknowledged that but also put effort into changing it - and succeeded.

Not sure I'd have characterised him as an "absolute dipshit" even back then, though.

Looks at date... meh. We've been through this, OP. Many years ago. In great detail. Meaning, among other things, plenty of lazy outrage posting like this.

And Torvalds has my full respect for facing the music and coming out a better person. Not many people are able to admit they've been wrong about something, and even fewer are able to actually do something about it.

Still, without the old Torvalds we wouldn't have memes like this one either.

I’m one of the 10000 to discover it today. I did not know about it. That’s it. Feel free to downvote.

But what did you learn? What are we supposed to learn? Did you get any context, like how he actually went to anger management therapy later?

Or is this just guffawing and gawping at an old angry email from a tech celebrity?

I've never seen it and found it entertaining that someone so knowledgeable dress-down someone who messed up something they're passionate about.

Was he a dick about it? Yes. But it doesn't make me like him less, even without knowing he's gotten better about it recently.

But the timestamp says 2012, how can it be 13 y....

He's 100% right and was only a little less professional than I think was deserved. A little too focused on the personal rather than the commit and wrongheadedness of the email itself. Anyone could submit a bad patch.

Was there a similarly harsh invective sent to whomever approved the PR in the first place? I'd bet so.

Understandable, he was right very often and "only" his tone was....unfiltered. but I ignore the "was right" part when using that phrasing

I'd like to imagine that this would be close to the phrasing Linus himself would choose, although I could be off of course!

Outrage bait? I thought this was praising Linus for being so passionate about protecting the users.

he was right very often and “only” his tone was…unfiltered

Yeah, there's a big difference between just insulting someone, or insulting someone based on clear arguments. AFAIK Torvalds always did the latter. Again, not saying that makes it OK though.

Why censor fucking but not fuck?