I&#x27;m not talking about polite, sweet n pretty, hey buddy let me help you out. I&#x27;m talking base line, standard, up front and direct as the subject requires and as something like kernel development most certainly does.<p>However, you should be expected to be able to carry on a conversation that wouldn&#x27;t be confused for a transcript of a 12 year old boy on XBox Live, calling people retards and morons.<p>If you find code of mine that&#x27;s shitty, great. Tell me about it. You can even come up to me and say &quot;hey pal, your code here is shit.&quot; Fine. You call me names, or you attempt personal shots at me over it, we&#x27;re done.<p>This is true for me as a professional, and would be excessively extra true for open source. People contributing to linux are volunteering their time and talent to work on something they believe in, and quite frankly, that those efforts are met with attitudes like those expressed by Linus and Linux still having ANY contributors left is amazing.<p>I don&#x27;t care how much you believe that talking like an adult doesn&#x27;t matter, I would bet every cent I had that if he were at least cordial, linux would be far ahead of where it is now.