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I thought the Finnish culture excuse was pretty weak, but I think he'd be perfectly justified in saying "I don't plan to stop cursing at people who I think dese
by hamburglar 13y ago
I thought the Finnish culture excuse was pretty weak, but I think he'd be perfectly justified in saying "I don't plan to stop cursing at people who I think deserve it. If that means nobody wants to work on my project, then so be it."
Because it's pretty obvious that there are plenty of people with enough enthusiasm for working on the kernel that they're willing to work with a profane curmudgeon, or perhaps people who do it because they actually enjoy that type of environment.
And trying to frame this in terms of Linus being an abuser or advocating violence or preying on the weak is just extremely dumb and insulting to people who are actually victims of real abuse. It's emails on a mailing list calling your code shitty and/or calling you stupid for writing shitty code. For fuck's sake, if you're victimized by that, maybe every open source project isn't for you.
- tptacek 13y agoShe also didn't say she was "victimized" in any way.
- hamburglar 13y agoShe didn't claim that she was vicitimized, but she definitely took it to that level on others' behalf: > Good lord. So anyone that is one of your "top maintainers" could be exposed to your verbal abuse just because they "should have known better"? > You know what the definition of an abuser is? Someone that seeks out victims that they know will "just take it" and keep the abuse "between the two of them". They pick victims that won't fight back or report the abuse.
- cromwellian 13y agoMaybe she should, some people are scared to speak up for themselves. And look at the sexist flak she's getting https://plus.google.com/photos/116960357493251979546/albums/5901285206596474753/5901288095984358098?pid=5901288095984358098&oid=116960357493251979546 https://plus.google.com/photos/116960357493251979546/albums/...