How is this brave or revisionist when most of the material I would cite was written when the guy was still alive? And I didn't exactly see any defamation suits? He didn't care because he was in a place where he didn't need to care. I'm not taking away from any of his genius, success, or vision at all. Stop with the patronizing tone.

Given all the nasty stuff we've seen Linus Torvalds write on public forums, should we say that Linus was absolutely a nice guy after he dies? That would absolutely be revisionist history. Speaking the truth would not take anything away from the amazing contributions Linus Torvalds has bestowed on this world, nor his self-evident genius.