"This week people in our community confronted me about my lifetime of
not understanding emotions. My flippant attacks in emails have been
both unprofessional and uncalled for. Especially at times when I made
it personal. In my quest for a better patch, this made sense to me.
I know now this was not OK and I am truly sorry."

https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/16/167

@k This could be a good thing.

I do hope he only drops/stops the meanness and remains *frank*. When people would criticize him for being mean, he'd make a very good case for being frank--and though he was obviously conflating these things (ironically, in a mirror of how others conflate them), it was still a good point.

Ideally, we get earnest, frank, and not-mean Linus out of this.