Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (930 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jan Engelhardt wrote:

> On Tuesday 2010-06-22 19:51, Pascal Bleser wrote:
> > On Tuesday 22 June 2010 11:08:05 Administrator wrote:
> > > > """
> > > > ... respect for other persons and their contributions, for
> > > > other opinions and beliefs.
> > > > """
> > > > 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".
> > [...]
> > Yet, it's not acceptable to be rude on a repeated basis and as the
> > "normal" way of dealing with people and their opinions. Most, if not
> > pretty much everyone, agree to that. For those who like being rude
> > (again, criticising != rude)
>
> So in your expert opinion, are Linus's "your code is crap" responses
> (and mind you - seeing carp code happens even more often in userspace)
> considered repeatedly rude?

What do you think about them, Jan?  To any casual observer, the lkml
response quoted was clearly rude - if it is repeated, it is repatedly
rude, yes. 



-- 
Per Jessen, Zürich (14.2°C)

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