[mundanevoice]

When people can't find fault in the technical argument, they start attacking other things like. > Oh! He is so rude, He insults so much.

If you have a better argument to counter his logic, please post that, it would be more useful for everyone involved. Posting pretty useless comments here is pretty lame.

[strictfp]

Wait, so according to you it's OK to be as rude as you wish, as long as you are technically correct?

I think most people couldn't care less who's right or wrong in this discussion. They are simply reacting to the discourse.

Personally, I'm far from convinced that there even is an objective right or wrong in this question. It's probably just a matter of taste and/or perspective.

I find Linus behavior rude because in discussions like this he seems to have little to no understanding of other perspectives than his own.

Either that or he is deliberately provoking this other fellow to get him off his high horses.

In either case, it's not exactly accepted public discourse.

He has said himself that he needs to do this to drive his point across, and given the medium and audience I can agree that the political challenge of running the project must be huge.

But surely there must be a more diplomatic way to the same end?

[mundanevoice]

> Wait, so according to you it's OK to be as rude as you wish, as long as you are technically correct? I never said that. My argument is that people/culture are different. What is considered offensive/rude in some culture is considered normal in other cultures.

> Personally, I'm far from convinced that there even is an objective right or wrong in this question. It's probably just a matter of taste and/or perspective.

This is not always true. Sometimes there is only one correct/pragmatic way of doing something. And if someone asserts that it's nothing wrong.

> I find Linus behavior rude because in discussions like this he seems to have little to no understanding of other perspectives than his own.

You can't say this is the case always. I have read a lot of the discussions like these. A lot of times, he writes a pragmatic and valid explanation of his dislike about a certain topic.

> In either case, it's not exactly accepted public discourse.

Again, you are assuming all cultures and societies are alike, they are not. There is a vast wide world with different thinking and a culture other than the Silicon Valley bubble. It's time people stop generalizing everything under the sun.

[rdiddly]

I'll critique his prose on efficiency grounds. He wastes many words making a point.

[mundanevoice]

Let's stop policing speech, alright? You can use as many words as you want to express your views. I personally would not use the same words he might use, but let's not be hypocrites and say that none of us have written an angry or frustrated response to something that we think is stupid and just plain wrong.

[AnthonBerg]

I posit that there is no policing here. By what definition is there policing?

Speech is a topic of discussion just like anything else under the sun.

(And also: People here have no authority or power to police anything.)

[rdiddly]

I did use as many words as I wanted.

You can take as many steps as you want to get to the mailbox too. And you'll be taking more steps if you detour to go sniff dog shit. Going in a straight line solves two problems - it's faster and it smells better.