[roamer_1]

This is succinct?

Yes, I think it is - if one takes the repetition for emphasis.

I read through the rest of the thread and a few of the others. Everyone else is calm and polite. I think Linus has an anger issue. I wonder how many qualified developers have been put off because they don't want to work with an immature bully?

LOTS of 'qualified' people can't operate where the rubber meets the road. LOTS. Every collaborative project I have ever been a member of has comparable language behind closed doors, and also has a tyrannical project manager at the lead - and many times that tyrant has been me. Decorum be damned - it's keeping the project in trim and on time that counts. Sometimes that takes being a jerk. Sometimes that takes 'my way or the highway'. It isn't a peaceful, stress-free process. In fact, it will eat your soul, if you let it... Especially a long-term or continuous project. And generally, the lead and his direct lieutenants are the ones that carry that stress, and get it done on budget and on time...

Crybabies go home.

[so_real]

I agree, even though I am personally offended by anyone using the Lord's name in vain. Still, that is the speech Torvalds used to cut straight through to the core of the problem, and quite effectively so. The programmer will raise his/her game, or get out. Both options benefit the project equally. He has unambiguously directed the course of the project into a win-win scenario. Anything less causes quality to suffer. As a project manager, Torvalds' approach is effective. His personality is exactly the type I would look to find when filling the position he holds.