> you sound like you're an ass with overgrown ego.
stands in direct contradiction to this expressed desire:
> get things done [and not] waste ... time
because what you think the other person sounds like is not relevant.
This:
> Absence of ass kissing isn't an insult.
is useless for a different reason. If you are a manager, which Torvalds is, you need to be able to keep the people you're managing in a usable state. This is only very rarely done with brusqueness.
> you sound like you're an ass with overgrown ego.
stands in direct contradiction to this expressed desire:
> get things done [and not] waste ... time
because what you think the other person sounds like is not relevant.
This:
> Absence of ass kissing isn't an insult.
is useless for a different reason. If you are a manager, which Torvalds is, you need to be able to keep the people you're managing in a usable state. This is only very rarely done with brusqueness.