Linus Torvalds: 'I'll never be cuddly but I can be more polite'
IMO the most interesting part - especially relative to the discussions I&#x27;ve seen right here - is near the end.<p>&quot;But if people at least realise that I&#x27;m not part of the disgusting underbelly of the internet that thinks it&#x27;s OK to show the kind of behaviour you will find if you really have been reading up on the &#x27;discussions&#x27; about the code of conduct, then even that will be a really good thing.&quot;<p>Yes indeed, if you look at many of the anti-CoC comments (e.g. in the &quot;killswitch&quot; thread) you get to see a lot of that underbelly. There are people who will oppose any kind of general rule restraining behavior, because that would prevent them from exercising their own more personal and arguably more subtle kind of coercion against those they don&#x27;t like for whatever reason. The other alternative is for an even bigger bully to keep them in line, but I shouldn&#x27;t need to explain how &quot;might makes right&quot; is even more problematic. Linus is deliberately stepping away from that bigger-bully role to give the alternative a try, but in the above excerpt he makes it pretty clear that he thinks there&#x27;s a problem to be addressed. The creeps should consider themselves on notice, whether there&#x27;s a CoC or not.