Best take I’ve seen in the thread so far.

Lawful evil is perhaps the term you’re looking for

Yeah, I don’t blame him for being frustrated. I definitely empathize with him here. I don’t know about the culture around committing to the kernal, but maybe it would be better to fork and make the case with action?

Sure, I saw that, too. This is Linus saying he won’t play that.

FTA: "However, I will say that the social media brigading just makes me not want to have anything at all to do with your approach.

"Because if we have issues in the kernel development model, then social media sure as hell isn’t the solution. The same way it sure as hell wasn’t the solution to politics.

“Technical patches and discussions matter. Social media brigading - no thank you.” -Linus

Yeah, I have to issue an unqualified agreement here. Linus isn’t saying no to Rust, he’s smackin’ that ass for bringing drama out into social media instead of working through it in normal technical discussion channels.

A really good point I heard is: this was likely a state actor attack, so how many others just like this are out there, undiscovered?

I’ve met this bird. It only prioritizes issues as urgent; when interacted with, it’ll say “yes, this is part of MVP”