Sigh. For 27 years, Linux has been maintained by a frankly abrasive person who weren't afraid to show middle finger to a big company, say some coders should be "retroactively aborted", and even say "shut the fuck up" to a co-contributor. We were told that it was part of Finnish culture of being direct, and although some people grumbled (and some thought that was a load of BS), people didn't really mind that much, worked together, and built the Linux we know now.

Now, for once, Linus Torvalds thinks it's time for change and maybe everyone could be a little nicer to everyone else, and suddenly we hear doom and gloom and how yielding to the American "SJW" culture will ruin Linux for everyone.

I wonder what choice words Linus-of-yesteryear would have uttered to see the shenanigan.