Administrator wrote:
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.
Casual observers cannot estimate the impact. Were it not for Linus's comments, there would be a more nonsense in the kernel.
Sure, but that's not up for discussion. Are you saying that to a regular observer Linus' comment was not rude??
I am saying that an casual reader may be unable to understand that it is this talk style that leads to the quality thing Linux is today.
Even the experienced reader will have problems. His style of talking is just bullying. It's intended to shock and frighten, not to inform and educate. I'm sure his assessment of the quality of the code was right, as was his decision to object. He could have said the code was below an acceptable standard, but chose to call it crap to insult and belittle the contributor. That's bullying.
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