It's crazy people spend so much time paying attention to Hollywood celebrity drama.

Opens LKML archive hoping for another Linus rant.

I'm sure there's just as much political allstar programmer fighting at google/apple/microsoft/whatever too, just this is done in public.

At least Kent hasn't murdered his wife

First thing that came to mind when I saw this drama.

The stakes are the highest across the entire kernel. Data that's corrupt cannot (easily) be uncorrupted.

Bad drivers could brick (parts of) your hardware permanently.

While you should have a backup of your data anyway.