I like these Linus quotes from further down the thread:

If I didn’t have strong opinions, I wouldn’t be in this business. I’d be just another random user using DOS and windows, I’m afraid.

And also, in my opinion, it is just worthless trying to write a nice and polite article to an advocacy newsgroup. The whole point of advocacy newsgroups is to have heated discussion. It should be coherent and reasonably thought out, but does it need to be polite? No.

In particular, social media moderators need to pay attention to the latter one whenever they’re inclined to censor “uncivil” rebuttals to sealioning and other “polite” bad-faith bullshit, while allowing the bullshit itself to remain.