I'm guessing you didn't read the article? You can't see the difference between someone opening a PR Linus doesn't like and a company actively lying about a security breach? They should absolutely be criticized, but I would not verbally harass a coworker over a PR.
Wild that you both made an account for this and dug through my comments just to comment on a comment on an article you didn't read.
The moral superiority is misplaced:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41017195
But I am not surprised. CoC proponents universally do the same as the people they criticize. Only the application of rules is selective.