Oooh, Suprise!
I can see scratches on the solid Gnome wall that states that Gnome is cleaner, easier, better, lighter, faster, and the KDE is a piece of crap used by eye-candy gruppies.
And I’m happy not because I believe that Gnome is bad, but because reading techie blogs in Poland it looks like the KDE users are just using KDE, and Gnome users not only using Gnome but additionally often express their sarcastic hate for KDE in malicious jokes. So maybe we’re getting near to the day when those hardcore-gnome-hackers will start seeing KDE as a platform of choice for many people. And those users choose KDE because, in their opinion, it’s better. Can you believe that?
update: anyway, it’s very unfortunate that Linus wrote that on Gnome maillist. It really looks like a trolling. He should probably express his believes on neutral ground.