To me, Torvald's nasty attitude usually nullifies his (unquestionable) technical merits. There's no excuse to SHOUT, curse, and treat others as imbeciles on e-mail; even less so on fora as public and prominent as the linux kernel's mailing lists.

As much as I decry patronising calls to make tech more "inclusive" and "nice", I must admit that people like Linus are a great argument in favour of that...