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> I wish people in this thread would stop turning the discussion into a straw-man argument about Linus’s language and focus their attention to the technical and
by Sniffnoy 9y ago
> I wish people in this thread would stop turning the discussion into a straw-man argument about Linus’s language and focus their attention to the technical and security problems at hand.
Nitpicking, since everyone can tell what you mean, but FWIW, the phrase you are looking for here is someting like "ad hominem" or "tone argument", not "straw man"; that's something completely different.
- mrmondo 9y agoYou're completely correct - I did indeed use the wrong terminology and I've done exactly that before with characterising the change in direction of an argument as a straw-man when as you rightly point out - is not correct. Thanks for politely pulling me up on this, I do appreciate it.