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		ivanbakel on Aug 9, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why GitHub Can't Host the Linux Kernel Community Cultural differences aren't enough to explain away his open hostility to so many things and people. To quote from the original comment in this thread: >You're a moron. I don't believe the Finnish mentality justifies being so aggressive - and if it does, I'd better stay a long way away from Finland, which is clearly an awful place to live.

u801e on Aug 10, 2017 [–]

> To quote from the original comment in this thread:

> >You're a moron.

> I don't believe the Finnish mentality justifies being so aggressive

A previous Hackernews thread referred to a reddit thread that found the now deleted comment that Linus responded to [1] [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3962978

[2] http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/tionj/linus_tor...

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