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It's ironic that people who call Torvalds as being black-and-white only see him as black-and-white-themselves. That page is a long page full of back-and-forth over different aspects of architectures, well-written, and he has issues against all of them (hardly black-and-white)

If you search for 'stupid', there's only one place where it's directed at people rather than technical issues, and then it's about a 'stupid question' rather than a stupid person. And then he goes on to describe why he thinks it's stupid - because the question implies no-one had tried before, when there had actually been a lot of effort for no gain.

TLDR: You're using Torvalds as a punching bag. Which is ironic, given that you're pinging him for using others as a punching bag.



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