I do not envy Linus position, but he had too much trust on others to see things in a constructive way. The tenet of his argument is that you can't at the same time say that you do not care about something, and then turn around and dictate how that something is done. Have your cake and eat it too seems to be the analogy here.<p>It was pretty clear and something that was repeated ad nauseam that Rust side can be broken with C patches, that Rust devs will deal with it. C developers do not have to worry about how their changes affect the Rust side of things. That for Linus is sufficient to create a separation of concerns between C developers that do not want to touch Rust and those that do.