Give Linus a break. If you happen to moderate the thousands of patches on daily basis , you would realize how frustrating it is to keep rejecting someone else's work. Saying "No" to someone else not only gives negativity to them but also brings negativity into one's life. He's job is not that easy. Here's are few recent interactions : http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1306.1/00154.html , some guy submitted some patch which ( obviously ) had bugs in them. Then there was an issue about the date. Linus sounds furious about the mess but then explains why he wants it fixed and how he foresees its use. Its not possible to keep giving explanations all the time to everyone who screws up. I think its just frustration nothing else , on his part .

I do'nt see a big deal with this. I have worked with Cisco on their one of the firewall stacks and today's networking devices are much more stateful and smart to do soemthing like this. Typical devices has a TCP normalizer that maintains a SYN cache and is capable of detecting attacks such as TTL, Duplicates attacks etc.

ha ha ha .. .Kiddin right ?

What are the applers gonna do with twitter. I don't see any strong business case here.. I hope that twitter remains independent. If it ends up with apple, it would have the same fate as many of those startups/small scales that were bought by Cisco - A.K.A. - nothing. if it ends up in Google's hands they will atleast try to make a falcon out of it .. :D

Good one ...!!! They are well known for amazing and new approaches to the traditional problems.. :D