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>Linus's flames also tend not to be personal: they're more like "this architecture is shit" than "you're shit". I don't see how it gets much more personal than
by anon1385 12y ago
>Linus's flames also tend not to be personal: they're more like "this architecture is shit" than "you're shit".
I don't see how it gets much more personal than starting off a mail to a new contributor with the line:
*YOU* are full of bullshit.
Even the supposed 'meat' of the argument was a thinly veiled personal insult:
Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/linus http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/linus
- XorNot 12y agoFrankly, Linus is in the right here. There's nothing constructive about the initial tone of the post being made. It is a hostile question from the outset. He goes on to explain in detail the why of the answer. It's not a flame. To bring this back to Lennart Poettering, I'd argue this is why community issues are hard to fix: there's far too many people who are happy to use efforts to stamp out really harmful stuff (threats of violence/death, flames and spamming/harassment) to instead try and knock down a prominent figure just because. It's a distraction that ultimately makes it irrelevant, and to boot ruins any forward progress to be made.
- vacri 12y agoNothing like a good old cherry-picked fiery comment out of the thousands of public messages Torvalds posts. Not to mention that you've sizably mischaracterised the 'meat' of his argument - which I find more offensive than hearing someone called 'full of BS' followed by an explanation.