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I wonder how many more articles on the internet are going to be wasted on this topic.
by anuragramdasan 13y ago
I wonder how many more articles on the internet are going to be wasted on this topic.
- 14113 13y agoLinus swears a lot is basically a "dog bites man" story.
- anuragramdasan 13y agoI can't disagree with what Linus said in his mail and the rest of the media reaction seems like unwanted unnecessary attention towards this issue.
- Karunamon 13y agoPretty much. This is the biggest tech non-story I've seen in months.. anyone who follows kernel development knows that Linus drops the occasional precision "F" strike. This is neither surprising nor newsworthy. The only reason it's getting as much play as it is, would be because another completely unrelated developer (and a female one at that, a rare person) decided to take issue with it this time. More surprising is the number of people (including the developer in question) who can't seem to grasp that because someone is swearing in a conversation with you doesn't mean they are swearing at you. Go re-read Linus' message if this is unclear. He never once demeans the intelligence, ability, or anything else about the person, only calling out their mistake as egregiously bad. The gist of the message is this: You screwed up. Here's why you screwed up. You know better than that. Don't do it again. Saying someone did something stupid and saying they themselves are stupid are two hugely different things. One of these thing is merely being acerbic, the other is actual verbal abuse.