The list of scathing messages that Linus Torvalds has written over the years is so rich and colorful that there’s an entire subreddit devoted to the topic.
“Mauro, SHUT THE F— UP!” Torvalds, the famed creator of the Linux operating system, wrote publicly to a software developer in 2012, calling the hapless recipient’s opinion “garbage and idiocy.”
“The above code is s—, and it generates s— code,” Torvalds rebuked a different colleague working on Linux, while blasting the work of yet another because “I expect *some* quality control, and this piece-of-s— driver has clearly seen none at all.”
He’s attacked tech giants like Intel, wondering whether the company is “committed to selling you s— forever and ever, and never fixing anything?” When the graphics chipmaker Nvidia ran afoul of Torvalds one time, he said simply: “f— you.”