There's a reason "team KDE" is taking some lumps despite the fact that yes, the text says that he's angry about people who accuse his team of being lazy, etc because Safari code is not instantly merged into KDE.

Its because the tone of his comments make it clear that he's plenty pissed at Apple. The tone is one of "So there!" Which is why so many people have percieved this as a slap against Apple, and not ignorant end users.

Had he said something more neutral in tone like, "The roots of the problem lie in the fact Safari is now forked in a different direction than KHTML, Apple's inhouse code isn't the cleanest, their commenting isn't detailed, several features rely on things specific to OS X, and they drop us massive 'code bombs'. This means that it takes time to pick through the code and see what works with KHTML. They zigged, we zagged, and don't assume we're working closely because we're not in eachother's backpockets." we probably would not have this kerfluffle at all.

"Pobody's Nurfect" and all, but when you've got a spotlight on you as a project heavy, you've got to watch tone and content of posts.