| 2. Because she posted on G+ asking for the support of others outside of the community to support her? [..] I'm not sure how you read it another way? It deliberately tries to invoke people who do not participate in LKML As I said, after she tried to reason with them, on that list. You know, opposed to copying and pasting lots of flamewars she just came across and blogging about it. No, actually, she isn't. I've been on various versions of LKML since 1998, and she is definitely not the first mentally grown up person to complain. That just makes it worse, you know. So they're a lost cause then. Maybe you'd care to explain why you believe Linus is wrong, rather than saying it's a response for a 5 year old? "That's just how I am" is shallow unreflected bullshit no matter the context. In context, he's deluded if he thinks he couldn't be just as blunt and firm without making such an ass of himself. He talks about "playing the victim card" right after playing the "that's just how I am card", I'm sorry, but this is so fucking stupid that I'd rather just laugh at it, and anyone defending it. You can make up your narrative for that and think it proves whatever; I just can't be arsed. BTW, your tone does not come across as very civil or professional. Because I implied brainlessness? Aww. Well, that last line comes across as passive-aggressive and vague, and I suggest if you want to say something or think you have a point there, just make it. Did I claim I am better? To the contrary, that's why I don't buy the antics of Linus. Even if I did claim I was very civil and professional while not actually being that, it would detract zero from what I said. |
This doesn't really change my point that it's honestly, nobody else's business what a given community decides to set for it's rules, unless that community is somehow impinging on other people's rights.
Here, it isn't. They keep to themselves. So yes, in some sense, if she can't get people in the community to agree, she should take her ball and go home. Appealing to mass authority in an attempt to generate pressure is not cool.
If i want to form a group of assholes that write software, that's on me. If you want to participate in my group of assholes, that's on you.
Asking random people on G+ to whine at me for being an asshole in that group is just childish.