I think the point is, and forgive the harshness of this, but the person to whom Linus called a moron was kind of being a moron.
Linus explained why he wouldn't accept pull requests from Github, due purely to the formatting of the commit log, and that guy starts insisting he do it because it's only a three line patch, basically ignoring everything that Linus had said.
Regardless the length of the patch, it doesn't alter the commit formatting.
I personally don't think I'd have ever resorted to calling someone a moron unless I personally knew them, but I very distinctly believed that guy to either missing the point, or trolling.
