"Some bad blood between Linus Torvalds and GNOME developers is
flaring up again. Previously, Torvalds has said that Linux users
should switch to KDE instead of GNOME because of the GNOME team's
'users are idiots' mentality. Now he has "put his money where his
mouth is" by submitting patches to GNOME in order to have it behave
as he likes.
"This week, on the Linux Foundation's (formerly OSDL) Desktop
Architects mailing list, the two sides are going mano a mano. On
Monday, Marcos Pérez López replied in Spanish to an
earlier message from Torvalds in which Torvalds lashed out at the
GNOME crew, claiming GNOME developers believed their users were
idiots..."