I concede it is possible someone might write a reasoned and balanced response to Sarah Sharp&#x27;s blog post. This is not that response. It&#x27;s lost all credibility by the first paragraph, and only serves to reinforce Sarah&#x27;s original point about the unnecessary rudeness on the kernel mailing list.<p>OTOH, was <i>is</i> interesting about this email is that it was posted on Wed, 24 Jul 2013, and Sarah&#x27;s blog post was posted on Oct 2015. So I don&#x27;t really understand was the motivation for posting this to HN is (shit stirring?) or what motivated the linked email.