Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (930 mails)

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> """
> ... respect for other persons and their contributions, for 
> other opinions and beliefs.
> """
>
> I would not want to commit to that. openSUSE may consist of 
> fluffy soft people, and thus feels a need for it, but I think 
> that hinders necessary level of criticism expressed like 
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/5/20/218 .

Showing respect for other people allows criticising them.  The attitude that
"I'm right so I can be rude to people" is the first step on the road of
fundamentalism, whose endpoint is that "other people have no value unless
they agree with me".  Being rude is selfish and lazy - it's always possible
to express the criticism which also acknowledges the other person's
viewpoint.

David

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